On Exile

Informationen zum Autor Jeroen De Keyser is Research Fellow at the University of Leuven. W. Scott Blanchard is Professor of English at Misericordia University. Klappentext Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile-poverty and loss of reputation-and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language. Zusammenfassung Francesco Filelfo’s On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile—poverty and loss of reputation—and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language.

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• Authors: Francesco Filelfo
• Assisted by: Jeroen De Keyser (Editor), Jeroen de Keyser (Editor), W Scott Blanchard (Translation), W. Scott Blanchard (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674066366
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06636-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; Tatti Renaissance Library (HUP) CONTINS PASS TO - [e-mail]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy