Title: The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga /
Authors: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel.; Goldhammer, Arthur.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Platter family.; Platter, Thomas,; Platter, Felix,; Platter, Thomas,; Protestants Switzerland Basel-Stadt Biography.; Physicians Switzerland Basel-Stadt Biography.; Authors, Swiss Biography.; Physicians history; Basel-Stadt (Switzerland) Genealogy.
Abstract: In 1499, high in the remote and bitterly impoverished mountains of the Valais, Thomas Platter was born and quickly abandoned, left to make his way among the crags as a herder of goats and sheep. At the age of ten, mustering the ferocity of will that would serve him throughout his life, Thomas walked barefoot and alone out of the hills and into the glorious turbulence of the sixteenth century.
Contents: 1. Father and son: Thomas and Felix Platter -- Pilgrimage to the Valais -- 2. Childhoods and undertakings (1499-1551) -- The Platter childhoods: Thomas -- Felix -- Platter enterprises: Thomas -- 3. Five years in the Land of Oc (1552-1556) -- Traveling to Montpelier -- Living in Montpelier -- 4. The year 1557 -- Going to Paris (Spring 1557) -- The Spring of 1557: Anabasis -- Summer and fall: thesis and wedding -- 5. Boy or girl? -- Gredlin -- Tomlin.