LEADER 04451nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910823006903321 005 20230405235104.0 010 $a1-282-17231-X 010 $a9786612172311 010 $a0-226-43627-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226436272 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396145 035 $a(OCoLC)55719354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10306248 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084052 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338919 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084052 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10164284 035 $a(PQKB)11479055 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448557 035 $a(DE-B1597)535559 035 $a(OCoLC)824153955 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226436272 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448557 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10306248 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL217231 035 $a(dli)HEB00481 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003603023 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396145 100 $a19931130d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe death of the child Valerio Marcello /$fMargaret L. King 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (503 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aEnglish, Italian, and Latin. 300 $aThe illuminated ms., De obitu Valerii ..., which is discussed in this work is located in the University of Glasgow Library. 311 0 $a0-226-43620-9 311 0 $a0-226-43619-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 425-461) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustration --$tAbbreviations --$tProrogue --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Death of a Child --$tCHAPTER TWO. The Birth o fa Book --$tCHAPTER THREE. Marcello in Word and Image --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Marcello in War and Peace --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Father and Son --$tCHAPTER SIX. In Sympathy --$tAPPENDIX ONE. Marcello Family and Monuments --$tAPPENDIX TWO. Chronology --$tAPPENDIX THREE. Texts --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$t1ndex 330 $aMargaret King shows what the death of a little boy named Valerio Marcello over five hundred years ago can tell us about his time. This child, scion of a family of power and privilege at Venice's time of greatness, left his father in a state of despair so profound and so public that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises, and poems. In these documents, we find a firsthand account, richly colored by humanist conventions and expectations, of the life of the fifteenth-century boy, the passionate devotion of his father, the feelings of his brothers and sisters, the striking absence of his mother. The father's story is here as well: the career of a Venetian nobleman and scholar, patron and soldier, a participant in Venice's struggle for dominion in the north of Italy. Through these sources also King traces the cultural trends that made Marcello's century famous. Her work enlarges our view of the literature of consolation, which had a distinctive tradition in Venice, and shifting attitudes toward death from the late Middle Ages onward. For the depth and acuity of its insights into political, cultural, and private life in fifteenth-century Venice, this book will be essential reading for students of the Renaissance. For the grace and drama of its storytelling, it will be savored by anyone who wishes to look into life and death in a palace, and a city, long ago. 606 $aNobility$zItaly$zVenice$vBiography 606 $aConsolation 606 $aMourning customs$zItaly 607 $aVenice (Italy)$xHistory$y697-1508 610 $arenaissance, venice, middle ages, consolation, death, family, nobleman, nobility, power, wealth, privilege, letters, oratory, poetry, literature, humanism, boyhood, masculinity, dynasty, mortality, conquest, colonialism, invasion, territory, politics, scholar, soldier, military, burial, mourning, grief, biography, war, monuments, nonfiction. 615 0$aNobility 615 0$aConsolation. 615 0$aMourning customs 676 $a945/.3105/0922 676 $aB 700 $aKing$b Margaret L.$f1947-$0297416 712 02$aUniversity of Glasgow.$bLibrary. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823006903321 996 $aDeath of the child Valerio Marcello$9750523 997 $aUNINA