Charles till davis (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xii, 342 p. ; 24 cm. ; blue cloth, no dustjacket ; ISBN 9780812278835, 0812278836 OCLC 9324441 LCCN 83003600 ; LC PQ4422 .D33 1984 Dewey 851/.1 ; Contents: Dante's Italy -- Dante's vision of history -- Poverty and eschatology in the Commedia -- Il buon tempo antico (The good old time) -- The Malispini question -- Education in Dante's Florence -- Brunetto Latini and Dante -- An early Florentine political theorist, Fra Remigio de' Girolami -- Roman patriotism and Republican propaganda : Ptolemy of Lucca and Pope Nicholas III -- Ptolemy of Lucca and the Roman Republic -- Appendix : Recent work on the Malispini question. ; SIGNED presentation by author, on front endpaper ; to Professor Howard Shealy (1949-2023), professor at Kennesaw State University ; Charles Till Davis (1929-1998) was an American medieval historian of Tulane University who was an authority on Dante Alighieri. ; FINE. Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Smart blue-cloth set of scholarly and lyrical works from Oxford University Press, including a first edition of Wyclif: Select English Writings. A collection of six blue-cloth texts from Oxford University Press.Comprised of the following titles:Wyclif: Select English Writings;Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins;English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century;Dante and the Idea of Rome;Selections from Early Middle English: Part I: Texts;Selections from Early Middle English: Part II: Notes.Wyclif: Select English Writings is a first edition and features a frontispiece portrait of the author.Spanning subjects such as Joseph Hall's insightful compilation of Middle English excerpts, Charles Till Davis' intuitive analysis of Dante's relationship with Rome and Gerald Manley Hopkin's reverent and reflective poetry. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight bumping and rubbing to all volumes and marking to front and back boards. With inscriptions from previous owners to the front endpapers and the occasional small bookplate from a previous bookseller to the bottom corner of the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the exception to mild spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…