Screen LibraryMontaigne : a life /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the French. |
| Carrier Form: | xxxv, 796 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-764) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691167879 0691167877 |
| Index Number: | PQ1643 |
| CLC: | K835.655.6 |
| Call Number: | K835.655.6/M761D |
| Contents: | pt. I. Ambitions. The Eyquems' social ascension -- A first career as a magistrate (1556-1570) -- La Boétie and Montaigne : discourse on servitude and essay of allegiance -- "Witness my cannibals" : the encounter with the Indians of the new world -- The making of a gentleman (1570-1580) -- The essais of 1580 : moral, political, and military discourses -- pt. II. Practices. The call of Rome, or how Montaigne never became an ambassador (1580-1581) -- "Messieurs of Bordeaux elected me mayor of their city" (1581-1585) -- "Benignity of the great" and "public ruin" (1585-1588) -- The marginalization of Montaigne (1588-1592) -- pt. III. Post mortem. Montaigne's political posterity. |