A01=Brunetto Latini
Author_Brunetto Latini
Bad Deeds
Bloody Knife
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Category=DSB
Category=JN
Category=JPSN
classical knowledge transmission
compendia of wisdom
Conscript Fathers
Contemplative Virtue
Corporeal Things
Dark Place
Dead Man
Doubtful Thing
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_isMigrated=2
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eq_society-politics
European intellectual history
Good Life
Good Man
Holy Church
Holy Men
honest
Honest Thing
King Ninus
medieval compendium classical sources
medieval encyclopedism
medieval scientific thought
men
minor
Minor Proposition
moral philosophy medieval
Mount Taurus
Pompey's Wife
Pope Innocent III
principal
Principal Matter
Principal Winds
proposition
replies
self-assurance
Self-assurance Replies
thing
ugly
Ugly Thing
White Head
wise
Wise Man
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815307631
- Weight: 970g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1993. Part of a library on Medieval Literature this volume is a translated version of 'The Book of the Treasure' by Brunetto Latini, who was a teacher of Dante and is remembered in Dante's Inferno in Canto 15. The Book of the Treasure is a compendium of primarily classical material, following in a long tradition of such collections, with origins in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a genre which was finally to die in the Renaissance, when especially the scientific knowledge contained in these pale and corrupt reflections of classical wisdom could no longer compete with the superior scientific material from the Muslim world which began to make its way into Christian Europe as early as the 11th century.
Paul Barreite, Spurgeon Baldwin
