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Paolo Giovio’s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Juan Luis Vives that were meant to accompany portraits in a museum of great figures in modern history. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin text and a new, more complete English translation.

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    A Hardback by Paolo Giovio, Kenneth Gouwens

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2023
      ISBN13: 9780674290150, 978-0674290150
      ISBN10: 0674290151
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      Biography Biography: adventurers and explorers Biography: historical, political and military Philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      Paolo Giovio’s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Juan Luis Vives that were meant to accompany portraits in a museum of great figures in modern history. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin text and a new, more complete English translation.

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