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Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy Alison Knowles Frazier
Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
Alison Knowles Frazier
The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. This study examines how humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments.
544 pages, 6 photos, 2 charts
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 9, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231129763 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 544 |
| Dimensions | 244 × 164 × 40 mm · 922 g |
| Language | English |