The Hermaphrodite / Antonio Beccadelli ; edited and translated by Holt Parker
- Author:
- Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471
- Published:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description:
- xlv, 299 pages ; 21 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471, Parker, Holt N., Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460, and Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
- Series:
- The I Tatti Renaissance Library ; 42
- Language Note:
- Texts in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
- Contents:
- Introduction -- The Hermaphrodite: Guarino's prefatory letter ; Book I ; Letter from Poggio to Beccadelli ; Book II ; Beccadelli replies to Poggio ; Beccadelli's recantation -- Appendix: associated letters and poems -- Notes to the text -- Notes to the translation.
- Summary:
- "The I Tatti Renaissance Library is the only series that makes available to a broad readership the major literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin. Each volume provides a reliable Latin text together with an accurate, readable English translation of facing pages, accompanied by an editor's introduction, notes on the text, brief bibliography, and index. Presenting current scholarship in an attractive and convenient format, The I Tatti Renaissance Library aims to make this essential literature accessible to students and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines as well as to general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780674047570 (alk. paper) and 0674047575 (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.
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