The Dark Brain of Piranesi: And Other Essays

by Marguerite Yourcenar

Book Overview

Seven of Yourcenar's most important critical essays, on subjects ranging from the Historia Augusta to Piranesi's engravings. Essential to the understanding of the searching and remarkably informed spirit of this protean writer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374177090
• ISBN13: 9780374177096
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"