Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9788822265166 |
| ISBN10: | 8822265165 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 598 pages |
| Size: | 968x355x968 mm |
| Weight: | 2500 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
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A Portuguese Abbot in Renaissance Florence ? The Letter Collection of Gomes Eanes (1415?1463)
The Letter Collection of Gomes Eanes (1415-1463)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date of Publication: 22 January 2025
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Short description:
Some 550 letters ranging over a wide field of topics and linking several countries
Some 550 letters ranging over a wide field of topics and linking several countries
of Europe, surviving in the Florentine archives, are here published in full and
annotated for the first time.
Long description:
This book is an annotated edition of the letters of Gomes Eanes, a Portuguese
who lived for three decades in Italy and was head of the Badia Fiorentina (Monastery
of Santa Maria of Florence) between 1419 and 1439. It includes a transcription of 550
missives that he received, of which the originals are currently kept in two Florentine
archives (Biblioteca Laurenziana, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale). The text provides a
detailed record of the abbot?s activities and of his constant communication with men
and women living in Italy, Portugal, and other parts of Europe, revealing a multilingual
cultural world and a wide field of human relations. As well as an introductory study
of the abbot and his career, the history of the letter collection within the intellectual
and institutional context of the Benedictine abbey, and of letterwriting as a cultural
practice in Portuguese and Italian societies, are considered. A general index of the
letters closes the volume.
who lived for three decades in Italy and was head of the Badia Fiorentina (Monastery
of Santa Maria of Florence) between 1419 and 1439. It includes a transcription of 550
missives that he received, of which the originals are currently kept in two Florentine
archives (Biblioteca Laurenziana, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale). The text provides a
detailed record of the abbot?s activities and of his constant communication with men
and women living in Italy, Portugal, and other parts of Europe, revealing a multilingual
cultural world and a wide field of human relations. As well as an introductory study
of the abbot and his career, the history of the letter collection within the intellectual
and institutional context of the Benedictine abbey, and of letterwriting as a cultural
practice in Portuguese and Italian societies, are considered. A general index of the
letters closes the volume.
