Giuseppe De Robertis Ed (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Softcover. Minor tears to wraps and spine. Light shelf wear. Generally clean. Blind stamp on title page. vi, 219 p. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.…

Paperback. First edition, limited to 1500 copies (number 1090) . Original covers, vi + 219 pp, annotated, untrimmed edges, in Italian (Italiano) . Paperback, near fine. Side edge of covers creased, spine tanned, with lettering faded there, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Discussion of the Platonists of the Middle Ages, including Manegold of Lautenbach, Bernard of Chartres, William of Conches, William of Saint Thierry, Byzantine and Italian Platonism, etc. Philosophy; theology; religion; Plato.…

Condition: Very Good. Clean, tight text; moderate shelf wear to exterior. Previous owner's name to flyleaf. Text in Italian.