Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio (2023, Hardcover)

Name: Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio (2023, Hardcover)
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Portraits of Learned Men\nby Paolo Giovio\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paolo Giovio\nTitle: Portraits of Learned Men\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: Harvard University Press\nPublication year: 2023\nISBN-13: 9780674290150\nISBN-10: 0674290151\nRRP: \u00A329.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nPaolo Giovio\u2019s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Juan Luis Vives that were meant to accompany portraits in a museum of great figures in modern history. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin text and a new, more complete English translation.\n\nPaolo Giovio\u2019s Portraits of Learned Men pr.