Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist

by Gareth Williams

This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine �migr� Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493. The more particular focus of this study is on the imaginative capacities that crucially shape Bembo's elegantly crafted account, in Latin,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190272295
• ISBN13: 9780190272296
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"