ISBN10: 0226065618, ISBN13: 9780226065618, [publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press] Hardcover XIII; 262 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - On October 2, 1931, an idealistic twenty- nine-year-old Italian poet and pilot named Lauro de Bosis launched a solitary protest against the Mussolini regime. He flew his airplane, which he named Pegasus after the mythological winged horse, from Marseilles to Rome, dropped antifascist flyers over the city, turned west, and disappeared forever. De Bosis's final voyage is the point of departure for Winged Words, Piero Boitani's aerial survey of humanity's fascination with flight as revealed in literature and history. Boitani begins his story with an account of the way the myths of Pegasus and Icarus have persisted from antiquity to the present. He then takes up the figure of Hermes; the roles of halcyons and eagles in classical, biblical, and later literatures; and literary responses to Pieter Brueghel's The Fall of Icarus. Honing in on modern figures and concerns, Boitani also offers a fascinating discussion of author-pilot Antoine de Saint- Exupéry and concludes with a meditation on the flight of the hijacked airliners on 9/11. Throughout, Winged Words brings a remarkable range of men of action, politicians, theologians, writers, and artists into dialogue with each other: ...
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Date: 2007. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2007). Fine<br/><br/> 2007. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226065618 US

Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007 Annotated. hardcover Fine in fine jacket 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2007). Fine.

ISBN10: 0226065618, ISBN13: 9780226065618, [publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press] Hardcover XIII; 262 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - On October 2, 1931, an idealistic twenty- nine-year-old Italian poet and pilot named Lauro de Bosis launched a solitary protest against the Mussolini regime. He flew his airplane, which he named Pegasus after the mythological winged horse, from Marseilles to Rome, dropped antifascist flyers over the city, turned west, and disappeared forever. De Bosis's final voyage is the point of departure for Winged Words, Piero Boitani's aerial survey of humanity's fascination with flight as revealed in literature and history. Boitani begins his story with an account of the way the myths of Pegasus and Icarus have persisted from antiquity to the present. He then takes up the figure of Hermes; the roles of halcyons and eagles in classical, biblical, and later literatures; and literary responses to Pieter Brueghel's The Fall of Icarus. Honing in on modern figures and concerns, Boitani also offers a fascinating discussion of author-pilot Antoine de Saint- Exupéry and concludes with a meditation on the flight of the hijacked airliners on 9/11. Throughout, Winged Words brings a remarkable range of men of action, politicians, theologians, writers, and artists into dialogue with each other: ...
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