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Josias Simler, Vallesiae Descriptio - Description du Valais: Introduction, traduction et notes

By Anne Andenmatten, Kevin Bovier
Hardcover
$85.00
By Anne Andenmatten, Kevin Bovier

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En 1574, l'humaniste zurichois Josias Simler (1530-1576) publie la premiere oeuvre en latin specifiquement consacrée a la geographie et a l'histoire du Valais : la Vallesiae Descriptio. Dediee a l'eveque de Sion Hildebrand de Riedmatten, cette Description du Valais se voulait le prelude a un ouvrage plus vaste sur la Suisse, reste inacheve. La presente edition, accompagnee d'une traduction et de notes explicatives, vise a faire decouvrir ce texte humaniste aux specialistes ainsi qu'au publi...