Letters to Friends

Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Daneloni is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics of the University of Verona. Martin Davies is Associate Editor of The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Klappentext The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio--a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli--are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl. Zusammenfassung The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl.

Product details

• Authors: Bartolomeo Fonzio
• Assisted by: Alessandro Daneloni (Editor), Daneloni Alessandro (Editor), Martin Davies (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2011
• EAN: 9780674058361
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05836-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; Tatti Renaissance Library (HUP) CONTINS PASS TO - [e-mail]
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; History, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, c 1500 onwards to present day, Diaries, letters and journals, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance