| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 484 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
English, Italian, and Latin |
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The illuminated ms., De obitu Valerii ..., which is discussed in this work is located in the University of Glasgow Library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-461) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Marcello, Jacopo Antonio, approximately 1400-approximately 1464.
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Marcello, Valerio, 1452-1461 -- Death and burial.
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De obitu Valerii filii consolatio.
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Consolation.
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Fathers and sons -- Italy -- Biography.
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Mourning customs -- Italy.
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Nobility -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
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Venice (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
University of Glasgow. Library.
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| ISBN |
0226436195 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0226436209 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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0226436276 (electronic bk.) |
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9780226436197 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780226436203 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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9780226436272 (electronic bk.) |
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