Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men : a Renaissance Humanist and His World
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiv, 362 p. w/footnotes, biographies, bibliography, index locorum, general index. A work translating and setting in context this important dialogue by this prominent Italian humaist, whose work also involved the study of Egyoptia hieroglyphs. The dialogue, published posthumously in 1620, is a survey opf the Humanist communities, the problems of scholars, and his often pessimistic views on humanity after the sack of Rome in 1527. Very good / very good. Item #20380
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