Education, civic virtue, and colonialism in fifteenth-century Italy
Subtitle: the Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri
By: edited and translated with an introduction by Carla P. Weinberg and E. Ann Matter
Contributors: Weinberg, Carla P.; Matter, E. Ann; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies -- v. 365
Publisher: ACMRS
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tempe, Ariz
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780866984133
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Political leadership; Justice; Philosophy; Early works to 1800; Virtue; Future life; Education of princes
Work titles: Ogdoas
Notes: Ogdoas, written by Alberto Alfieri around the early part of the 15th century, is a manuscript of eight Latin dialogues which take place between the souls of deceased members of the Visconti and Adorno families in the afterlife; the only extant manuscript is in Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Latin text with English translation.