Family Memoirs from Verona and Vicenza (15th-16th Centuries) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788883340840)

This volume presents texts of a type that is familiar to scholars of Tuscany but is virtually unknown for the Veneto: only one of these works has been edited, and only three have been mentioned in secondary studies. Few in number, they are all of the libri di famiglia that have been uncovered from Verona and Vicenza for the Quattrocento (some extend into the early Cinquecento). They represent, in fact, nearly the entire corpus of early memorie familiari from the Veneto as a whole: scant examples from Padua and Venice have been located, and none from the other cities of the region. Even so, it has been possible to assemble this number of texts only by applying broad criteria for selection, requiring that texts exhibit the core attributes of memorie detailed domestic and personal entries, especially anagraphic data on the births, marriages and deaths of the writers' families.

Author: James S. Grubb,Anna Zangarini
ISBN-10: 8883340841
ISBN-13: 9788883340840
Publisher: Viella
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2002
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs