Category: Renaissance Studies

BUILDERS AND HUMANISTS The Renaissance Popes as Patrons of the Arts

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of St. Thomas : 1966

Seller ID: 8190

Condition: Near Fine

Former owner's name to prelim. Decorative paper wraps. ; Six lectures: "A Renaissance Picture Portrait of the Zuccaro Brothers' Stay in Rome," "The Creation of a City: The Rome of Pius IV," "A Visionary Pope: Nicholas V and the Architectural Development of Rome," "Papal Patronage in the Renaissance: Martin V and Quercia, Julius II and Michelangelo," The Creation of 17th Century Painting in Rome around 1600," & "St. Peter's: the Glorious Compromise." ; 362 pages
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GODS & HEROES: BAROQUE IMAGES OF ANTIQUITY For the Benefit of the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Wildenstein : 1968

Seller ID: 16873

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor rubbing to wraps. ; A Loan Exhibition from North American Collections. October 30, 1968 to January 4, 1969. 24, (54) pp. , 53 plates (4 color). ; 54 pages
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GASSENDI E L'ATOMISMO EPICUREO

By: Alberti, Antonina

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Istituto Universitario Europeo : 1981

Seller ID: 6865

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor edgewear to wraps. ; 365 pages
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RENAISSANCE FABLES Aesopic Prose by Leon Battista Alberti, Bartolomeo Scala, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bernardino Baldi. Translated with an Introduction and Notes

By: Alberti, Leon Battista & Leonardo Da Vinci; Bartolomeo Scala; Bernardino Baldi. Ed. & Trs. by David Marsh

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies : 2004

Seller ID: 22063

ISBN-13: 9780866983037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Some pencil marginalia and underlining. 1 page with underlining in red pen and marginalia. Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ has some minor creasing. ; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Volume 260; 367 pages
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RENAISSANCE Révolutions Dans Les Arts En Europe, 1400 - 1530

By: Angelucci, Laura Et Al.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Somogy Éditions D'Art : 2012

Seller ID: 16742

ISBN-13: 9782757205778

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Catalogue de l'exposition inaugurale du Louvre-Lens, du 4 décembre 2012 au 11 mars 2013. Oversized. ; 357 pages
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ANTONELLO DA MESSINA Sicily's Renaissance Master

By: Barbera, Gioacchino

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press : 2006

Seller ID: 32751

ISBN-13: 9780300116489

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Metropolitan Museum Of Art Publications; 9.8 X 7.9 X 0.2 inches; 56 pages
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BAROCK-RHETORIK Untersuchungen Zu Ihren Geschichtlichen Grundlagen

By: Barner, Wilfried

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Tubingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag : 1970

Seller ID: 34616

ISBN-13: 9783484101302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Bumping to top of textblock. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). DJ has chipping and tears along upper edge. ; 537 pages
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DER LITERARISCHE BAROCKBEGRIFF

By: Barner, Wilfried (Hrsg. )

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft : 1975

Seller ID: 8867

ISBN-13: 9783534057405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Minor spotting to endpapers. Light ink stains to ffep. Light shelfwear. Light foxing to foreedge of textblock. Spine is browned and foxed. ; Wege Der Forschung 158 (CCCLVIII) ; 597 pages
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ERCOLE E I FARNESE In Margine Al Recupero Della Statua Di Ercole E Anteo Di Theodor Van Der Sturck Promoss Dal Gruppo Bormioli Rocco

By: Barocelli, Francesco

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Milan, Edizioni L'Agrifoglio : 1993

Seller ID: 22788

ISBN-13: 9788886264099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to book. DJ is price-clipped with 1 small tear. ; 100pp, nicely illustrated.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 100 pages
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HISPANO-CLASSICAL TRANSLATIONS PRINTED BETWEEN 1482 AND 1699

By: Beardsley, Jr. , Theodore S.

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Duquesne University : 1970

Seller ID: 21351

ISBN-13: 9780875351131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Small stain to inner hinge (1 cm) (bleed through from DJ). Else book is fine. DJ has scratches and a few small chips. ; xi, 175pp.; A Modern Humanities Research Association Monography. Duquesne Studies Philological Series 12; 175 pages
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HISPANO-CLASSICAL TRANSLATIONS PRINTED BETWEEN 1482 AND 1699

By: Beardsley, Jr. , Theodore S.

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Duquesne University : 1970

Seller ID: 16850

ISBN-13: 9780875351131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else book is fine. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; xi, 175pp.; A Modern Humanities Research Association Monography. Duquesne Studies Philological Series 12; 175 pages
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A SUMMARY GUIDE TO WESTERN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

By: Bennett, Adelaide & Jean F. Preston & William P. Stoneman

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Princeton University Library : 1991

Seller ID: 14885

ISBN-13: 9780878110346

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Small stain to upper corner of front wrap and large stain to rear wrap. Pages lightly tanned. ; 75 pages
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IOACHIMI BILSCII [JOACHIM BIELSKI] CARMINA LATINA Edidit Thaddaeus Bienkowski

By: Bielski, Joachim; Thaddaeus [Tadeusz] Bienkowski

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe : 1962

Seller ID: 16828

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Pages tanned. Stamp to rear wrap. Tears to spine ends (2 cm). Minor shelfwera. ; Academia Scientiarum Polona. Bibliotheca Latina Medii Et Recentioris Aevi, Vol. VII; 172 pages
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FLORISLEGIUM Bloemlezing Uit De Erasmiaanse, Rotterdamse En Andere Opstellen Van Drs. N. Van Der Blom

By: Blom, N. Van Der; Drs. J. Smit & Drs. J. Spoelder

Price: $32.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill & Backhuys : 1982

Seller ID: 4723

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Gift inscription from one of the editors to the owner of the book on ffep. ; Hem aangeboden bij zijn afscheid van het Arasmiaans Gymnasium. Collection of Dutch articles mostly on Erasmus. ; [Kleine reeks] / Stichting Historische Publicaties Roterodamum; 163 pages
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THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE AND ITS BENEFICIARIES From the Carolingian Age to the End of the Renaissance

By: Bolgar, Robert Ralph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Row : 1964

Seller ID: 19327

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear. Small chip to base of spine. Former owner's name stamped to titlepage with small tear to titlepage. ; Reprint of the 1954 ed. 591pp. ; Harper Torchbooks; 591 pages
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DAS WERDEN DER RENAISSANCE Rede Zur Feier Des Geburtstages Seiner Majestät Kaisers Und Königs Am 27. Januar 1908 Im Namen Der Georg-August-Universität Gehalten

By: Brandi, Karl

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gottingen, : 1908

Seller ID: 21608

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Inscribed by the author on front wrapper, backstrip reinforced with clear tape. Some browning to wraps. ; 27pp. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 27 pages
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CHAUCER The Pardoner's Tale

By: Brown, Carleton (edit).

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press : 1958

Seller ID: 1443

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

A couple of pages have pencil notes and underlinings. Michael Ondaatje's name to ffep. ; Michael Ondaatje has signed the title page -- his university copy from 1964. Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient". ; 63 pages
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THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE Culture and Society in Italy

By: Burke, Peter

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1986

Seller ID: 26679

ISBN-13: 9780691028385

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine sunned. Light shelfwear. ; 296 pages
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GREECE AND BRITAIN

By: Casson, Stanley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Collins : 1943

Seller ID: 1175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Former owner's signature (classics professor R. Shepherd) on fly page. Bumping to top board. Light shelfwear to boards. ; Looks at the fascinating relationship and mutual influence of Greece and Great Britain. Includes early voyages of Greek sailors to England to the 16th and 17th century and finally to World War I. Also looks at the revival of classical learning in England.
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THE CALUMNY OF APELLES A Study in the Humanist Tradition

By: Cast, David

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : 1981

Seller ID: 33459

ISBN-13: 9780300025750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Foxing to top of textblock else very minor shelfwear. DJ spine is sunned. ; Yale Publications in the History of Art, 28; 243 pages
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THOMAS MAY: MAN OF LETTERS, 1595-1650 A Thesis

By: Chester, Allan Griffith

Price: $55.00

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania : 1932

Seller ID: 19349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Original wraps appear to have been mounted on boards. Red cloth spine. ; 204 pages
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THE OTHER SIDE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: READINGS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Volume I: the Ancient World to the Reformation

By: Chodorow, Stanley (Ed. )

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich : 1973

Seller ID: 3172

ISBN-13: 9780155676466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor creasing to bottom of front wrap. Shelfwear. ; Articles by AHM Jones, M I Finley, Samuel Angus, E A Thompson, Njal's Saga, Lynn White, Jr. , Irving Agus, Norman Chon, Peter Abelard, Austin P Evans, Sidney Painter, Urban T Holmes, Charles H Haskins, Margaret Labarge, William Bowsky, Thomas B Costain, ...etc..; 290 pages; The book consists of secondary readings with a strong social history focus. It provides students with exposure to the latest issues in European social history and to the nature of history research. At the same time, the articles themselves are easily linked to mainstream ...
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THE VILLA IN THE LIFE OF RENAISSANCE ROME.

By: Coffin, David R.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1988

Seller ID: 30550

ISBN-13: 9780691002798

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very light edgewear to wraps. ; Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology XLIII; 10.9 X 8.3 X 0.9 inches; 408 pages
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THE VILLA IN THE LIFE OF RENAISSANCE ROME.

By: Coffin, David R.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1988

Seller ID: 34902

ISBN-13: 9780691002798

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very light shelfwear to wraps. ; Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology XLIII; 10.9 X 8.3 X 0.9 inches; 408 pages
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BERNINI SCULTORE - GUIDA BREVE La Nascita Del Barocco in Casa Borghese

By: Coliva, Anna (A Cura Di)

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Edizioni de Luca : 1998

Seller ID: 14015

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear. ; Text is in Italian. ; 32 pages
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L'AGE DE LA CONVERSATION

By: Craveri, Benedetta & (Eliane Deschamps-Pria, Trans. )

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Gallimard : 2002

Seller ID: 8631

ISBN-13: 9782070763528

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light wear to corners. One corner is creased. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. ; Du règne de Louis XIII à la Révolution, la société française a élaboré un art de vivre dont la conversation fut l'ingrédient essentiel. Née comme un simple passe-temps, comme un jeu destiné au délassement et au plaisir, bientôt élevée au rang de rite cardinal de la société mondaine, elle s'ouvrit peu à peu à l'introspection, à l'histoire, à la réflexion philosophique et scientifique, au débat d'idées. Son théâtre privilégié était les " ruelles ", puis les salons où la noblesse, ayant déposé les armes et exclue ...
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THE ODES OF DANTE The Text Taken by Kind Permission of the Società Dantesca Italiana from Their 1960 Edition of the Opere

By: Dante Alighieri; H. S. Vere-Hodge (Trans. )

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Oxford At the Clarendon Press : 1963

Seller ID: 32037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; 269 pages
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AN ENGLISH COMMENTARY ON DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA

By: Dante Alighieri; Rev. H. G. Tozer

Price: $47.00

Publisher: Oxford At the Clarendon Press : 1901

Seller ID: 32225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Former owner's name bleached out from ffep. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light shelfwear. ; 628 pages
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EXPLORING ROME Piranesi and His Contemporaries

By: Denison, Cara D. & Myra Nan Rosenfeld & Stephanie Wiles

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The MIT Press : 1993

Seller ID: 16747

ISBN-13: 9780262540711

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Tear to head of spine with small piece torn off (1 cm). Sticker damage to rear wrap (small area of colour loss). ; Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Morgan Library and the Centre Canadien d'Architecture in Montreal; with four critical essays and the main catalogue with 128 b/w illustrations & 9 colour plates; 293 pages; The response to Rome by eighteenth-century Italian, French, and British artists is the subject of this beautifully illustrated, large-format book. The focal point is a group of approximately 40 drawings and prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) , whose dramat...
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ORDERS AND HIERARCHIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE

By: Denton, Jeffrey (Ed. )

Price: $55.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press : 1999

Seller ID: 3258

ISBN-13: 9780802044839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

This collection of essays examines different, but linked, aspects of the social organization of Europe from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays broach two fundamental questions: how were social distinctions and divisions perceived and portrayed by the politically active, the writers, and the image-makers; and, bound up with the first question, according to what principles and methods should the modern enquirer perceive and portray the ordering of society during Western Europe's formative years? The contributors bring perspectives from a range of disciplines, from historical, ...
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ERASMUS VON ROTTERDAM: AUSGEWÄHLTE SCHRIFTEN. ZWEITER BAND II: Morias egkomion sive Laus Stultitiae; Camina selecta Auswahl aus den gedichten

By: Erasmus Von Rotterdam; Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Alfred Hartmann; Werner Welzig (Hg. )

Price: $37.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft : 1975

Seller ID: 26777

ISBN-13: 9783534059430

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Some rubbing to spine label else book is fine. ; Xxxix, 361 pp ; Vol. 2; 361 pages
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OPERA OMNIA DESIDERII ERASMI ROTERODAMI: VOLUME IX-4 Recognita Et Adnotatione Critica Instructa Notisque Illustrata. ORDINIS NONI, TOMUS QUARTUS

By: Erasmus, Desiderius

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Elsevier Science & North-Holland : 2003

Seller ID: 2678

ISBN-13: 9780444510556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

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.
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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS: APOPHTHEGMATA [2 VOLUME SET] Translated and Annotated

By: Erasmus, Desiderius & Elaine Fantham & Betty I. Knott (Ed. )

Price: $195.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2014

Seller ID: 26890

ISBN-13: 9781442641662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

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. ...
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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS: LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL WRITINGS 7 De Virtute / Oratio Funebris / Encomium Medicinae / De Puero / Tyrannicida / Ovid / Prudentis / Galen / Lingua

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; Elaine Fantham & Erika Rummel (Eds. ) (with The Assistance Of Jozef Ijsewijn)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press : 1989

Seller ID: 13598

ISBN-13: 9780802058188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

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...
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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS: LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL WRITINGS 7 De Virtute / Oratio Funebris / Encomium Medicinae / De Puero / Tyrannicida / Ovid / Prudentis / Galen / Lingua

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; Elaine Fantham & Erika Rummel (Eds. ) (with The Assistance Of Jozef Ijsewijn)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press : 1989

Seller ID: 26889

ISBN-13: 9780802058188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

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. ...
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THE PRAISE OF FOLLY. With a Short Life of the Author by Hendrik Willem Van Loon of Rotterdam, Who Also Illustrated the Book

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; hendrik willem van loon

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Walter J. Black : 1942

Seller ID: 28980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Browning and a bit of rubbing to spine. ; 254 pages
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OPERA OMNIA DESIDERII ERASMI ROTERODAMI: VOLUME VI-6 Recognita Et Adnotatione Critica Instructa Notisque Illustrata. ORDINIS Sexti, TOMUS Sextus

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; P. F. Hovingh (Ed. )

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd & North-Holland : 2003

Seller ID: 2677

ISBN-13: 9780444514608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Contents: In evangelivm ioannis annotationes. Annotationes in acta apostolorvm. ; Erasmi Opera Omnia; 1.4 x 9.8 x 6.8 Inches; 416 pages; Hardbound.
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JORDAENS ET L'ANTIQUITÉ

By: Fonds Mercator; Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts De Belgique; Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Fonds Mercator; Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts De Belgique; Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel : 2012

Seller ID: 16785

ISBN-13: 9789061536741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear. Minor wear to corners. Light knock to top of spine. Pictorial boards. ; 316 pages
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BYZANTIUM AND THE RENAISSANCE Greek Scholars in Venice: Studies in the Dissemination of Greek Learning from Byzantium to Western Europe

By: Geanakoplos, Deno John

Price: $155.00

Publisher: Archon Books : 1973

Seller ID: 4580

ISBN-13: 9780208013118

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Minor shelfwear. Light spotting to textblock. DJ has light chipping to extremities. Light staining to back panel of DJ. Minor rubbing to DJ. ; Contents: Part I: the Background: Byzantium and Venice; Crete and Venice; Greek Colony in Venice. Part II: The Disseminators: Michael Apostolis; Marcus Musurus; Arsenios apostolis; Zacharias Calliergis; Demetrius Ducas; Desiderius Erasmus. ; 348 pages
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THE POETS ON THE CLASSICS An Anthology of English Poets' Writings on the Classical Poets and Dramatists from Chaucer to the Present

By: Gillespie, Stuart

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Routledge : 1988

Seller ID: 19343

ISBN-13: 9780415003285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small chips and light edgewear. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; A collection of poetic English writing on the classics, providing a first-hand guide to the relations between classical literature and the English poetic tradition. It contains over two hundred entries, ranging from the Middle Ages to today. ; 256 pages
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LILIO GREGORIO GIRALDI: MODERN POETS

By: Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio & John N. Grant (Ed. & Trans. )

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 2011

Seller ID: 17417

ISBN-13: 9780674055759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Tiny indent mark to first few pages else book is fine. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479?1552) received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron, he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there; Mirandola, where he entered the service of Gianfrancesco Pico; Milan, where he studied Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles; and Rome, where he enjoyed the munificence of Pope Leo X. Following the sack of Rome in 1527, Giraldi eventually made his way back to Ferrara, wh...
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LILIO GREGORIO GIRALDI: MODERN POETS

By: Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio & John N. Grant (Ed. & Trans. )

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 2011

Seller ID: 26538

ISBN-13: 9780674055759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Gift inscription to ffep from John Grant to R. E. Fantham. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479?1552) received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron, he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there; Mirandola, where he entered the service of Gianfrancesco Pico; Milan, where he studied Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles; and Rome, where he enjoyed the munificence of Pope Leo X. Following the sack of Rome in 1527, Giraldi eventually made his way back to Ferrara...
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STUDIES IN THE TEXT OF SENECA'S 'NATURALES QUAESTIONES'

By: Hine, Harry M.

Price: $130.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1996

Seller ID: 5981

ISBN-13: 9783519076216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 130 pages; "This Volume of notes on the text and interpretation of Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones is a companion to my Teubner edition of the work. I have not attempted a comprehensive textual commentary, but have discussed passages where I have taken a different view of the text from my predecessors..."
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STUDIES IN THE TEXT OF SENECA'S 'NATURALES QUAESTIONES'

By: Hine, Harry M.

Price: $130.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1996

Seller ID: 9882

ISBN-13: 9783519076216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light foxing to back board else fine. ; Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 130 pages; "This Volume of notes on the text and interpretation of Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones is a companion to my Teubner edition of the work. I have not attempted a comprehensive textual commentary, but have discussed passages where I have taken a different view of the text from my predecessors..."
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EDITING POLYMATHS: ERASMUS TO RUSSELL Papers Given At the Eighteenth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems University of Toronto 5-6 November 1982

By: Jackson, H. J.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: The Committee for Conference On Editorial Problems : 1983

Seller ID: 1253

ISBN-13: 9780969138303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Light rubbing. ; Contents: Coleridge and the Self-unravelling Clue; Critical Edition of Diderot's Oeuvres complètes; On editing Erasmus; Three myths in Editing Russell's Collected Papers; Editing Hegel's Encyclopedia. ; 176 pages
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PAPAL EPIGRAPHY IN RENAISSANCE ROME The Chapters on Paleography by Ulla Nyberg.

By: Kajanto, Iiro & Ulla Nyberg

Price: $57.00

Publisher: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia : 1982

Seller ID: 15929

ISBN-13: 9789514104237

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Examines the papal epitaphs covering the period betwen Martin V (d. 1431) and Paul III (d. 1549); Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia : Sarja-Ser. B ; Nide-Tom. 222; 143 pages
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PAPAL EPIGRAPHY IN RENAISSANCE ROME The Chapters on Paleography by Ulla Nyberg.

By: Kajanto, Iiro & Ulla Nyberg

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia : 1982

Seller ID: 15930

ISBN-13: 9789514104237

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Small chip to base of spine. Else minor shelfwear. ; Examines the papal epitaphs covering the period betwen Martin V (d. 1431) and Paul III (d. 1549); Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia : Sarja-Ser. B ; Nide-Tom. 222; 143 pages
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HOMER

By: King, Katherine Callen

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Garland Publishing : 1994

Seller ID: 720

ISBN-13: 9780815304821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light shelfwear. Light discoloration to bottom of boards. Ex-library copy with a few stamps. Pocket has been removed. ; Three essays written for, and two others translated for the collection are among the 19 studies of the impact of the Iliad and the Odyssey on succeeding ages since the fifth century BC. Among the writers considered are George Chapman (who first translated Homer into English in 1598) , Pope, Milton, Kafka, Goethe, Racine, Keats, Tolstoy, Joyce, and recent Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott . Looks at Homer's influence from Antiquity to the twentieth century. ; Garland Reference Libr...
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PETITE PATRIE L'Image De La Région Natale Chez Les Écrivains De La Renaissance

By: Laigneau-Fontaine, Sylvie

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Librairie Droz : 2013

Seller ID: 17401

ISBN-13: 9782600017152

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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...
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HOMER'S ANCIENT READERS The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes

By: Lamberton, Robert & John J. Keaney (Eds. )

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1992

Seller ID: 14595

ISBN-13: 9780691069340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

Initials of editors to ffep "RL JJK > REF"-- (ie gift inscription? From editors to R. E. Fantham). Light dust-soiling to top of textblock. Paperclip indent to top of a few pages. Light pencil marginalia to a few pages. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found meaning in his texts. These seven essays explore the ways in which the Iliad and the Odyssey have been read from the time of Homer through the Renaissance. By asking what questions early rea...
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Category: Renaissance Studies