Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World by Gaisser, Julia Haig - 1999

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. xiv, 362 pp, b&w frontis, preface, abbreviations, introduction, Johannis Pierii Valeriani, De Litteratorum infelicitate: Liber Primus and Secundus (The English Text); Biographies; Bibliography; Index Locrum; Index with b&w illustrations. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts And Contexts series: First Edition, 1999. "The author 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." Not Price Clipped. Pristine Interior. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..