Biographical Writings |
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| Author:
| Manetti, Giannozzo |
| Edited and Translated by:
| Baldassarri, Stefano U.
Bagemihl, Rolf |
| Series title: | The I Tatti Renaissance Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-01134-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2003 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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Manetti (1396-1459) was a leading humanist biographer of the Renaissance. This voulme brings together his biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, and his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca--the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period.
Manetti (1396-1459) was a leading humanist biographer of the Renaissance. This voulme brings together his biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, and his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca--the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period.