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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796324303321

Autore

Petrarca Francesco <1304-1374, >

Titolo

The Lives of the Popes and Emperors / / translated by Aldo S. Bernardo and Reta A. Bernardo ; edited, with an introduction, by Tania Zampini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Italica Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-59910-252-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxviii, 280 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Medieval & Renaissance texts

Disciplina

851/.1

Soggetti

Emperors - Rome

Popes

Holy Roman Empire Kings and rulers Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The first English translation of a work long attributed to Francesco Petrarch, containing biographies of 230 popes and 117 emperors, including anti-popes and renegade emperors, as well as accounts of human and unusual cosmic events from the first to the sixteenth century"--