Renaissance in Italy: The Age of the Despots

by John Addington Symonds

Overview

Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) delved into every field of the humanities, writing the celebrated Renaissance in Italy and publishing translations of the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and the Sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella; he wrote biographies of Shelley, Sidney, and Jonson, and collaborated with Havelock Ellis on a number of projects in sexology. He is remembered for his untiring efforts to loosen the restraints on homosexuals in England, and his Memoirs are the only diary of a Victorian homosexual of his stature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781410203656
Publisher:	University Press of the Pacific
Publication date:	12/29/2002
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.03(d)