"I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship

ISBN-13: 9780674048409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 392 str.

Anthony Grafton

Opis

The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) is known through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot's Middlemarch. This book reveals the real Casaubon as a genuine literary hero. It follows Casaubon as it unearths the lost continent of Hebrew learning - and adds this ancient lore to the well-known Renaissance revival of Latin and Greek.