The Republic of Letters (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (First Edition)

Fumaroli, Marc

ISBN 10: 0300221606 / ISBN 13: 9780300221602

Published by Yale University Press / Margellos, New Haven, 2018

About this Item

New Haven: Yale University Press / Margellos World Republic of Letters, 2018. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Red paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($30.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy with no faults. Octavo, 382 pages. Brand new, never opened. Translated from the French and with an introduction by Lara Vergnaud. Includes bibliographical references and index. An intellectual history tracing the rise of the République des Lettres, the transnational fellowship of thinkers, writers, and critics whose correspondence and shared ideals shaped European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Fumaroli illuminates the ideal of learned discourse as a civilizing force across linguistic, religious, and national boundaries. A member of the Académie Française and longtime professor at the Collège de France, Fumaroli was one of France s most esteemed cultural historians, known for his work on classical rhetoric, 17th-century literature, and the politics of humanism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Republic of Letters (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (First Edition)
• Publisher: Yale University Press / Margellos, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300221606
• ISBN 13: 9780300221602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • French Literature

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Synopsis

A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French

In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined “republic” of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life―and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought‑provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.

About the Author

Marc Fumaroli is a professor emeritus at the Collège de France and a member of the British Academy, the Académie française, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Société d’histoire littéraire de la France. Lara Vergnaud is a French‑English translator based in Washington, DC.