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, of his Etna...

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