ISBN10: 0472110551, ISBN13: 9780472110551, [publisher: University of Michigan Press] Hardcover HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.
[Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

University of Michigan Press 1999 1st Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Black hardcover with bright gilt lettering on spine, corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Dust jacket shows slight creasing and rubbing. Binding tight, pages very clean, previous owner indication on inside front cover is the only marking. 362 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or overseas shipment.

ISBN10: 0472110551, ISBN13: 9780472110551, [publisher: University of Michigan Press] Hardcover Excellent copy, clean crisp pages. Dust jacket present, but some sunfading to the spine of the jacket. See pictures
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ISBN10: 0472110551, ISBN13: 9780472110551, [publisher: The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor] Hardcover Hardcover. Julia Haig Gaisser provides us with a highly readable translation of and context for the interesting and little known sixteenth-century dialogue, De Litteratorum Infelicitate (On the Ill-Fortune of Learned Men) by Pierio Valeriano. The dialogue between several humanists takes place during Lent, 1529, less than two years after the Sack of Rome and just before the stirrings of the Counter Reformation. These humanists, including Valeriano, are gathered together discussing the lives and unhappy fortunes of humanists from 1470 to 1540. The stories are interesting not only for the direct historical information they provide, but also because they are colored by the knowledge that the glory days of humanism have passed, and the speakers are memorializing a lost era. This first English translation of Valeriano's work contains three sections: an introduction on Valeriano, Roman humanism, and the dialogue; the Latin text and facing English translation with historical notes; and biographies of the humanists involved. Gaisser's delightful book will satisfy all those interested in the world of the Roman humanist, for it elegantly provides a roster of major and minor figures, and the individual stories and characters are shown to be threads of a whole social and intellectual fabric. Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor in the Humanities ...
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