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The death of the child Valerio Marcello /
Margaret King shows what the death of a little boy named Valerio Marcello over five hundred years ago can tell us about his time. This child, scion of a family of power and privilege at Venice's time of greatness, left his father in a state of despair so profound and so public that it occasione...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano Latín |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[1994]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Margaret King shows what the death of a little boy named Valerio Marcello over five hundred years ago can tell us about his time. This child, scion of a family of power and privilege at Venice's time of greatness, left his father in a state of despair so profound and so public that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises, and poems. In these documents, we find a firsthand account, richly colored by humanist conventions and expectations, of the life of the fifteenth-century boy, the passionate devotion of his father, the feelings of his brothers and sisters, the str. |
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| Notas: | English, Italian, and Latin. The illuminated ms., De obitu Valerii ..., which is discussed in this work is located in the University of Glasgow Library. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 484 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-461) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226436195 9780226436197 0226436209 9780226436203 9780226436272 0226436276 |