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Record Nr.

UNISA996385067503316

Autore

Donne John <1572-1631.>

Titolo

Biathanatos [[electronic resource] ] : a declaration of that paradoxe or thesis that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise : wherein the nature, and the extent of all those lawes, which seeme to be violated by this act, are diligently surveyed / / written by John Donne .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1648

Descrizione fisica

[18], 218, [i.e. 220] p

Altri autori (Persone)

DonneJohn <1604-1662.>

Soggetti

Suicide - Religious aspects

Suicide

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title tranliterated from Greek.

Edited by the author's son, John Donne, who signed "The epistle dedicatory."

Consists of the sheets (except sig. S, p. 137-144) of the original undated edition, published (probably in 1646) with t.p.: Biathanatos : a declaration of that paradoxe, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sinne, that it may never be otherwise ... / written by Iohn Donne ... ; published by authoritie. London : Printed by J. Dawson. Cf. Donne, J. Biathanatos, 1930, p. 71-77.

"Written in 1608, and published, contrary to Donne's command, by his son"--Grolier. Wither to Prior, v. 1, p. 238.

Marginal notes.

Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0160