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Pages: 358
Authors: Fred Schurink
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-04 - Publisher: MHRA

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Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors in Renaissance England. These volumes present nine Tudor and Stuart translations from his Essays and Live
Plutarch in English, 1528–1603. Volume One: Essays
Language: en
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Authors: Fred Schurink
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-04 - Publisher: MHRA

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Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors in Renaissance England. These volumes present nine Tudor and Stuart translations from his Essays and Live
Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences
Language: en
Pages: 321
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-13 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book examines passages in Plutarch’s works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination. The contributors question omissions of au
Petrarch’s Triumphi in English
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Pages: 244
Authors: Alessandra Petrina
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This edition argues that Petrarch's text has been neglected by modern scholarship in favour of the translations of the Canzoniere, while it can be shown that th
The Tragicomedy of the Virtuous Octavia
Language: en
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The first English self-labeled “tragicomedy” about Octavia’s failed attempts to win back her inconstant husband, Antony, from his Egyptian lover, Cleopatr