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Pierio Valeriano on the ill fortune of learned men : a Renaissance humanist and his world

"Julia Haig Gaisser provides us with a translation of and context for the interesting and often misunderstood sixteenth century dialogue De litteratorum infelicitate (On the Ill Fortune of Learned Men) by Pierio Valeriano. The dialogue among several humanists takes place during Lent, 1529, less than two years after the Sack of Rome and just before the stirrings of the Counter Reformation
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1999