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| Title: | Reception of Plutarch's 'Lives' in Fifteenth-Century Italy
: Two-Volume Set |
| Author: | Marianne Pade |
| ISBN: | 8763505320 : 9788763505321 |
| Illustrations: | colour plates |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 175x250mm |
| Pages: | 752 |
| Weight: | 1.95 Kg. |
| Published: | Museum Tusculanum Press - August 2007 |
| List Price: | 50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: classical; early & medieval: History of ideas; intellectual history: c1000CE-c1500: Italy |
Plutarch's Lives of great Greek and Roman public figures are among the central texts of European culture. Like most Greek authors Plutarch had been unknown in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, but when Renaissance humanists rekindled interest in Greek language and culture, he became one of the most widely read authors of the period. These two volumes show how Plutarch came to influence fifteenth-century Italian culture and how the overwhelming interest in the Lives can be explained by studying the way Classical Antiquity was used for ideological purposes in Renaissance Italy.
Part I: Text; Part II: Prefaces, List of Translations; Part III: Catalogues.
