Jodocus Badius Ascensius: Commentary, Commerce and Print in the Renaissance

by Paul White

Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535) was a scholar and printer who played a central role in the flourishing of humanism and print culture in the French Renaissance. In a career spanning four decades, he was involved with the print publication of something approaching one thousand editions. He was known for the "familiar" commentaries he wrote and published as introductions to the major authors of Latin (and, less frequently, Greek) antiquity, as well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197265545
• ISBN13: 9780197265543
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: British Academy
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"