Possible Lives
Subtitle: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780231129763
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General History; History: World; Italy; Christian Theology - Angelology & Demonology; Christianity - General; Europe - General; Religion / Christianity; Christian hagiography; Christian literature, Latin (M; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); History; History and criticism; Renaissance; To 1500
First sentence: In the midwinter of 1439, the aspiring historian Tobia del Borgo wrote a letter to Guarino Guarini, his former teacher.