The Beggar and the Professor
Subtitle: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
Contributors: Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 6, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780226473246
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social history; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Historical - General; Literary; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western
First sentence: In 1563, in the final weeks of spring (F 401), Thomas Platter, an erst-while highland shepherd and vagabond who had gone on to become first a printer and later a boarding-school teacher and headmaster in Basel, decided, at the age of sixty-four, to leave Basel on a pilgrimage of reminiscence to the land of his birth: the German-speaking Upper Valais, situated downsteam from the Rhone glacier and upstream from Lausanne and Geneva, the heartland of francophone Switzerland.