TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Margaret L.
ED  - University of Glasgow.
TI  - The death of the child Valerio Marcello
SN  - 0226436195 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - DG677.99.M37 K56 1994 E-book
U1  - 945/.3105/0922 22
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Marcello, Jacopo Antonio,
KW  - Marcello, Valerio,
KW  - De obitu Valerii filii consolatio
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - Biography
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Consolation
KW  - Mourning customs
KW  - Marcello, Jacopo Antonio
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Venice (Italy)
KW  - History
KW  - 15th century
KW  - ბიოგრაფია და ავტობიოგრაფია--
KW  - ნობილიტეტი
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - English, Italian, and Latin; The illuminated ms., De obitu Valerii ..., which is discussed in this work is located in the University of Glasgow Library; Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-461) and index; 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
N2  - 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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