The death of the child Valerio Marcello [electronic resource] / Margaret L. King.
Material type: TextLanguage: engitalat Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 484 p.) : ill., mapISBN:- 0226436195 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226436197 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226436209 (paper : alk. paper)
- 9780226436203 (paper : alk. paper)
- 9780226436272 (electronic bk.)
- 0226436276 (electronic bk.)
- Marcello, Jacopo Antonio, approximately 1400-approximately 1464
- Marcello, Valerio, 1452-1461 -- Death and burial
- De obitu Valerii filii consolatio
- Nobility -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography
- Fathers and sons -- Italy -- Biography
- Consolation
- Mourning customs -- Italy
- Fathers and sons
- Marcello, Jacopo Antonio
- Mourning customs
- Nobility
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- HISTORY
- Venice (Italy) -- History -- 15th century
- ბიოგრაფია და ავტობიოგრაფია-- ნობილიტეტი
- 945/.3105/0922 22
- DG677.99.M37 K56 1994 E-book
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ელ.რესურსი | ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 | 929.9(45)”04/14” (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.
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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