The death of the child Valerio Marcello

King, Margaret L. 1947- (Author). University of Glasgow. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: 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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ISBN: 0226436195 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780226436197 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0226436209 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780226436203 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780226436272 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226436276 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xviii, 484 p.) : ill., map.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:apr.13 English, Italian, and Latin. Multi-User. CatBulkString:apr.11.13 The illuminated ms., De obitu Valerii ..., which is discussed in this work is located in the University of Glasgow Library.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-461) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE The Death of a Child; CHAPTER TWO The Birth of a Book; CHAPTER THREE Marcello in Word and Image; CHAPTER FOUR Marcello in War and Peace; CHAPTER FIVE Father and Son; CHAPTER SIX In Sympathy; APPENDIX ONE Marcello Family and Monuments; APPENDIX TWO Chronology; APPENDIX THREE Texts; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.