num_pages: 240
description: Seven of Yourcenar's most important critical essays, on subjects ranging from the Historia Augusta to Piranesi's engravings. Essential to the understanding of the searching and remarkably informed spirit of this protean writer.
language: English
title: The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays
titlecomplete: The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays
genres: History, Criticism, Architecture, Essays, Philosophy, France, French Literature, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 147
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux