"I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship

by Joanna Weinberg and Anthony Grafton

" An] extraordinary book." --New Republic

Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar's already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) is known to us through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot's Middlemarch. But in this book, the real Casaubon emerges as a genuine literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048407
• ISBN13: 9780674048409
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 10.0"