Portraits of Learned Men, Hardback/***

Paolo Giovio's Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Juan Luis Vives that were meant to accompany portraits in a museum of great figures in modern history. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin text and a new, more complete English translation. Publisher: Harvard University Press Number of pages: 688 Collection: The I Tatti Renaissance Library Publication date: 2023 Dimensions: 142 x 211 x 38 Cover type: Hardback