On Exile

Francesco Filelfo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

512 Seiten

2013
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-06636-6 (ISBN)

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Francesco Filelfo’s On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile—poverty and loss of reputation—and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language.

Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation, and the best way to endure and even profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language.

Jeroen De Keyser is Research Fellow at the University of Leuven. W. Scott Blanchard is Professor of English at Misericordia University.

Reihe/Serie	The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Übersetzer	W. Scott Blanchard
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass
Sprache	englisch
Maße	133 x 203 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-674-06636-7 / 0674066367
ISBN-13	978-0-674-06636-6 / 9780674066366
Zustand	Neuware