Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004529403)

In Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography, Ronald Santangeli has recovered a long-forgotten document of great historiographical, literary and cultural importance. Written in 1624 in Neo-Latin by George Con, a young expatriate Scot in Rome, the Vita Mariae Stuartae is worthy of study, both for its content and its literary dimension. The fully recensed Latin text is presented with a meticulous translation into English and a fully-annotated commentary. The image Con creates of the Scottish Queen has prevailed in European cultural representations from poetry and drama to novels, paintings and opera, while Con's own meteoric career highlights the impact on seventeenth-century Catholic Europe by members of the Scottish diaspora. A significant addition to Marian and Scottish Neo-Latin studies.

Author: Ronald Santangeli
ISBN-10: 9004529403
ISBN-13: 9789004529403
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2023
Pages: 442
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 1.00d