Champ fleury (Classiques de la Renaissance en France) (French Edition)

ISBN 10: 0854092099 / ISBN 13: 9780854092093

Published by Johnson Reprint Corp

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Champ fleury (Classiques de la Renaissance en France) (French Edition)
• Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corp
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 0854092099
• ISBN 13: 9780854092093
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Ostensibly a formal treatise on letters and letterforms, Geofroy Tory’s Champ Fleury is a marvelously personal work that reveals much about the experiences, perceptions, and attitudes of the prototypical Renaissance man. Taken literally, champ fleury means "flowery fields"; written as a single word, it is an old French idiom for "paradise." Tory clearly chose the title to connote the variety of ideas rooted in his everyday experience as a scholar, editor, scribe, illuminator, and bookseller. Tory’s analysis of letters, for instance, was not limited to their construction and visual presentation, but also included larger issues of language and literature. This Octavo Edition includes a commentary, bibliographical notes, and complete images of the original 1529 work and of the 1927 translation designed by Bruce Rogers. Commentary by Kay Amert.

From the Publisher

Imaged from The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of the Library of Congress