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oapen-20.500.12657-344742021-11-08T10:17:51Z Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies Akkerman, Fokke Waszink, Jan Haskell, Yasmin Money, David Vermeulen, Corinna Kool, Wouter desiderius erasmus rudolph agricola gerardus geldenhouwer johann von plieningen neo-latin biography goswinus van halen humanism philipp melanchton Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Deventer Groningen Heidelberg Rodolphus Agricola bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general::BGH Biography: historical, political & military Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies The Frisian humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) is rightly famous for single-handedly bringing the Italian Renaissance to the North. Owing to his fascinating personality and many talents, he attracted the love and admiration of his contemporaries and the following generations. As a result, six biographies on Agricola have been preserved. The authors of these lives drew their materials from different sources and wrote their texts independently from each other. Differing vastly in rhetorical aims and methods, they provide us with a vivid image of cultural and intellectual life in the 15th century. Erasmus praised Agricola's work throughout his writings. No less than fifty testimonies from Erasmus and his correspondents are presented here. This edition of sources supplements the volume of Agricola's letters (BLN, 2002) and is preceded by an expert survey of all biographical information now at our disposal. Thus it fills a gap in our knowledge of a great man of letters, while correcting a number of persistent misconceptions (concerning the year of Agricola's birth, for instance). 2012-12-31 23:55:55 2018-06-26 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:17:49Z 2020-04-01T15:17:49Z 2012 book 426371 OCN: 842294860 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34474 eng bibliotheca latinitatis novae application/pdf n/a 426371.pdf http://www.vangorcum.nl/NL_toonBoek.asp?PublID=4793-0 Koninklijke van Gorcum 10.26530/OAPEN_426371 10.26530/OAPEN_426371 79eacada-dc99-48b5-9140-368f146d66dc OAPEN-NL 264 Assen open access
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Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies The Frisian humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) is rightly famous for single-handedly bringing the Italian Renaissance to the North. Owing to his fascinating personality and many talents, he attracted the love and admiration of his contemporaries and the following generations. As a result, six biographies on Agricola have been preserved. The authors of these lives drew their materials from different sources and wrote their texts independently from each other. Differing vastly in rhetorical aims and methods, they provide us with a vivid image of cultural and intellectual life in the 15th century. Erasmus praised Agricola's work throughout his writings. No less than fifty testimonies from Erasmus and his correspondents are presented here.
This edition of sources supplements the volume of Agricola's letters (BLN, 2002) and is preceded by an expert survey of all biographical information now at our disposal. Thus it fills a gap in our knowledge of a great man of letters, while correcting a number of persistent misconceptions (concerning the year of Agricola's birth, for instance).
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