Dinner Pieces: Volume 2

Auteur
Roberto Cardini is Director of the Centro di Studi sul Classicismo. David Marsh is Professor of Italian at Rutgers University and an expert on the Italian Renaissance. He has published broadly on Renaissance humanism and the classical tradition and has translated seminal texts by important early-modern authors including Petrarch, Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vico.

Texte du rabat
A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking, the Dinner Pieces, or Intercenales, are among Alberti's most innovative works. They constitute an important monument in the history of comic writing and cover topics from politics to the arts to love. This edition presents a new translation and an authoritative Latin text.

Résumé
A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking, the Dinner Pieces, or Intercenales, are among Alberti's most innovative works. They constitute an important monument in the history of comic writing and cover topics from politics to the arts to love. This edition presents a new translation and an authoritative Latin text.