Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
- ISBN-10
- 0231129769
- ISBN-13
- 9780231129763
- Series
- Possible Lives
- Category
- Christian hagiography
- Pages
- 527
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Alison Knowles Frazier
Description
The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. This study examines how humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments.
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