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James M. Weiss.
Humanist Biography in Renaissance Italy and Reformation Germany: Friendship and Rhetoric.
Published Farnham: Ashgate/Variorum, 2010.
Series: Variorum Collected Studies, CS947.
ISBN 9781409400219.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: TJ International, Padstow.
Size: 157x229x28mm.
Page count: xii,312pp (individual articles retain paginations from their original publications).
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this is an unwanted review copy so shows some evidence of handling by prospective reviewers; boards and spine have some mild wear on the edges and corners, and at least one page has some creasing across its lower outside corner; in other respects an unused copy.

This item £45.00
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[Publisher’s price £80.00]
Weight without packaging: 732g.

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Reprints 12 previously published essays. Contents:
Varieties of biography during Italian Renaissance — individuality & beyond;
Hagiography by German humanists, 1483-1516;
Luther & his colleagues on lives of the saints;
Johannes Fichardus & the uses of humanistic biography;
Six lives of Rudolph Agricola — forms & functions of humanist biography;
Erasmus at Luther's funeral — Melancthon's commemorations in 1546;
Melancthon & the heritage of Erasmus — Oratio de puritate doctrinae & Oratio de Erasmo Roterodamo;
Technique of faint praise — Johann Sturm's Life of Beatus Rhenanus;
Rhetoric of friendship — Joannes Hagius's Life of Petrus Lotichius Secundus;
Harvest of German humanism — Melchior Adam’s collective biographies as cultural history;
References to Italy in biographies of German humanists;
Ecclesiastes & Erasmus — mirror & image.
Appendices: Hand lists of biographies cited.

Notes: retain styles of their original publications, at foot of page/end of each chapter/end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 10pp
Index: yes

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See also | Humanism | Renaissance | Reformation | Italy | Germany |
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