Hardcover, 336 pages, NOT ex-library. Outer page edges affected by age-spotting. Pages 242-244 show extensive traces of erased pencil markings (notations, underlining). Otherwise interior is clean and untanned, with unmarked text (each page has been carefully inspected): limited gentle marks from reading only. Secure binding. Boards show moderate bowing and a gentle spine lean; a touch of rubbing to edges. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: - The Life of Barnabe Riche, - The Farewell and the Italian Novella in England, - Translation, Imitation, and Plagiarism, - Fiction or Truth: An Elizabethan Critical Impasse, - Stories for the Gentlewoman Reader, - The Novella and the Conventions of Romance, - Introductions to the Stories (Sappho Duke of Mantona; Of Apolonius and Silla; Of Nicander and Lucilla; Of Fineo and Fiamma; Of Two Brethren and Their Wives; Of Gonsales and His Virtuous Wife Agatha; Of Aramanthus Born a Leper; Of Phylotus and Emelia), - Conclusion; A Short History of the Text and Editorial Procedures; Selected Critical Bibliography; Farewell to Military Profession: - Prefatory Epistles and Poems, - Sappho Duke of Mantona, - Of Apolonius and Silla, - Of Nicander and Lucilla, - Of Fineo and Fiamma, - Of Two Brethren and Their Wives, - Of Gonsales and His Virtuous Wife Agatha, - Of Aramanthus Born a Leper, - Of Phylotus and Emelia, - Conclusion; Textual Notes and Commentaries.

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Title: Barnabe Riche, His Farewell to Military Profession (Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society)
Publisher: Dovehouse & Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1895537037
ISBN 13: 9781895537031
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

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