Minor shelfwear. ; Studi in onore di Antonio Garzya. A cura di U. Criscuolo e R. Maisano, promossi da Fabrizio Conca, Ugo Criscuolo, Herbert Hunger, Jean Irigoin, Italo Lana, Riccardo Maisano e Gianni Macchiavelli. ; Collectanea; 1041 pages View More...
Contents: Apologia Qua Respondet Duabus Invectivis Edvardi Lei (ed. Erika Rummel) ; Responsio ad Annotationes Edvardi Lei (ed. Erika Rummel) ; Manifesta mendacia (Rummel) ; Responsio ad disputationem cuiusdam phimostomi de divortio (ed. Edwin Rabbie). ; Erasmi Opera Omnia; 1.34 x 10.16 x 6.61 Inche; 424 pages; Hardbound. View More...
Very minor shelfwear to books with faint bump to 1 corner of each volume. DJs have minor shelfwear. ; This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical scholarship and includes several works that bear witness to Erasmus' friendship with Thomas More. The last and most expansive piece in the volume, the Lingua, has not previously been translated into English. ... View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Gift inscription from Thomson in Latin to front inner cover. Chipping and tears to DJ. ; 243 pages; Signed by Translator View More...
Very minor shelfwear with light bump to 1 corner. Minor soiling to front panel of DJ. Creasing along top edge with a bit of chipping and 1 tear (1.5 cm). ; This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical scholarship and includes several works that bear witness to Erasmus' friendship with Thomas More. The last and most expansive piece in the volume, the Lin... View More...
Very minor shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has chipping and tears along top edge with some rubbing. ; This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical scholarship and includes several works that bear witness to Erasmus' friendship with Thomas More. The last and most expansive piece in the volume, the Lingua, has not previously been translated into English. ... View More...
Contents: In evangelivm ioannis annotationes. Annotationes in acta apostolorvm. ; Erasmi Opera Omnia; 1.4 x 9.8 x 6.8 Inches; 416 pages; Hardbound. View More...
Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has minor edgewear with a few small chips. Price-clipped dustjacket. ; Xi, 137pp. ; 137 pages; Examines Aeschylus' religious and political thought. View More...
Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Viii, 304pp. This volume presents essays on early modern Latinity, which examine both humanist Latin and Latinists' responses to Otherness of various kinds. ; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Volume 360. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Volume 30; 304 pages View More...
Spine slightly faded. Very minor shelfwear. ; Text is in English with Greek selections. Examines the complexities of the Greek attitudes toward war, morality, and interstate relations through the narrow apercus provided by Greek capitulation treaties down to the end of Philip II's reign. ; Hypomnemata Untersuchungen Zur Antike Und Zu Ihrem Nachleben Heft 71; 142 pages View More...
Former owner's name to ffep in ink. Pages slightly tanned. Light foxing to inner covers and textblock. Light edgewear to corners. ; University of Michigan Humanistic Papers; 396 pages View More...
Some scuffing/staining to front wrap. Else book is fine. ; This collection, based on an international conference that took place at the University of Dijon in March 2012, addresses the theme of the ?native region? as it appears in the works of Renaissance authors whose languages of expression were Latin and French. The contributors offer several reflections on the image that these authors left of their ?little homeland?, to borrow Cicero?s affectionate description of Arpinum. After an initial discussion of authors from southern Europe such as Mantua?s Battista Spagnoli and Spain?s Juan Luis Vi... View More...
Light edgewear. Spine ends are lightly worn. Former Gift inscription and marker dot to fly-page. Otherwise Near Fine. ; 18 pps text by Charles Mitchell, 10 tipped in colour plates with accompanying text by Plutarch. Humanistic culture of early fifteenth century Florence is brilliantly exemplifiedby the colorful illuminations from this Latin translation of ten of Plutarch's Lives Accompanied by English translations describing the scenes. ; The Library of Illuminated Manuscripts; 40 pages View More...
Tiny stain to front board. Very minor shelfwear. DJ has a couple of tiny chips. ; 18 pps text by Charles Mitchell, 10 tipped in colour plates with accompanying text by Plutarch. Humanistic culture of early fifteenth century Florence is brilliantly exemplifiedby the colorful illuminations from this Latin translation of ten of Plutarch's Lives Accompanied by English translations describing the scenes. ; The Library of Illuminated Manuscripts; 40 pages View More...
Dustjacket has a couple of tears now protected in mylar. Former owner's name on titlepage. ; Studies in Italian Literature in honour of Beatrice Corrigan HB/DJ A translation of Petrarch's Bucolicum Carmen I: Parthenias; Petrarch and the art of literature and a bibliography of the published works of Beatrice Corrigan are among this collection of 13 studies in Italian literature. ; 276 pages View More...
Frontispiece has been repaired with cloth tape. Former owner's name to ffep deleted with black marker. Chipping to spine ends. 1 corner lightly bumped. Light edgewear to corners. Dampstaining to corners of 3-4 pages and rear inner corner. Some pencil notes by R. E. Fantham. Pages tanned. ; 350 pages View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Non-circulating set. Books have minor shelfwear and rubbing. Else VG; Two Volume Set. Volume I has 408 pages. Volume II has 409 pages. View More...
Light rubbing to front cover. ; Critical editions of most classical authors are based on readings transmitted by medieval scholars that can be examined and collated. Modern editions of Petronius, on the other hand, are principally based on printed editions, most of them published in France during the sixteenth century. In this volume T. Wade Richardson considers the use made of the Petronius manuscripts then extant by seven French humanist editors for their various editions, commentaries, and notes. Some of the manuscripts they used may be equated with extant exemplars, which therefore serve a... View More...
1 corner very lightly bumped. ; Critical editions of most classical authors are based on readings transmitted by medieval scholars that can be examined and collated. Modern editions of Petronius, on the other hand, are principally based on printed editions, most of them published in France during the sixteenth century. In this volume T. Wade Richardson considers the use made of the Petronius manuscripts then extant by seven French humanist editors for their various editions, commentaries, and notes. Some of the manuscripts they used may be equated with extant exemplars, which therefore serve a... View More...
The case of Johann Reuchlin, one of the best-known controversies of the 16th century, has been interpreted in many ways: as a case of anti-Semitism, a controversy between humanists and scholastics, or a case foreshadowing the Reformation debate. The last interpretation was facilitated by Luther himself, who repeatedly linked his case with that of the biblical humanists Lefevre, Erasmus, and Reuchlin. In this lively critical analysis, Erika Rummel describes how the second interpretation, which was promoted in the 19th century, was replaced after WWII by a new sensitivity toward the anti-Semitic... View More...
Woodcut title vignette, devices and initials, contemporary vellum, yapp edges. Ink letters to top corner of first pages (from a to i). Small circle institution stamp to titlepage and to obverse of titlepage (University of London) and last page. Light Ink lines (1 or 2) and very minor ink notes (1 page) to index pages (about 6 pp). Rear inner cover shows faint evidence of removed plate. Small 1 cm tear near top of gutter of ffep. Former owner's name to ffep. Some foxing. Some darkening to vellum binding. ; [136] pp + 844 pp + [18] pp. "attack upon astrology by Claude Saumaise or Salmasius, the ... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. 1 small tear to DJ. Gift inscription from author to Sister Marie Therese. ; The last decade has seen a renewal of interest in the works of Erasmus. Much has been written on the educational and editorial writings of that great humanist of the northern Renaissance, but relatively little on his fictional work. This book deals with the fiction of Erasmus and what it contains of instruction and delight. The attention of the study is focused primarily on the four satiric works: The Praise of Folly, the Colloquies, Julius Secundus, exclusus,... View More...
Very light pencil underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Dust-soiling to top of textblock. DJ has a few small chips and one closed tear to upper back corner. ; 331 pages View More...
