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Beloved Son Felix: Coming of Age in the Renaissance

By Felix Platter, Stephen Greenblatt (Foreword by)
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By Felix Platter, Stephen Greenblatt (Foreword by)
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“Like the diary of Samuel Pepys or the memoirs of François-René de Chateaubriand, Beloved Son Felix [is] an invaluable and entertaining firsthand exploration of a bygone era . . . We are allowed a rare glimpse into the street-level experiences of a common Renaissance man.” —Michael Patrick Brady, The Wall Street Journal

The wildly vivid, rare, and revealing journals of a sixteenth-century medical student.

In 1552, sixteen-year-old Felix Platter left Basel, Switzerland, and journeyed 370 mil...

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