Marullus: Soldier Poet of the Renaissance

by Carol Kidwell

x 323p hardback, navy cloth with illustrated blue jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket edges, very light marks to edges, binding like new, pages clean and neat like new, excellent copy of uncommon title with little to no internal wear, this copy published in the year 1989

Genres: History

336 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1989

Reviews

[Kristján Hannesson]

Marullus is one of the great Latin poets of the Renaissance. Too proud to enter a menial trade, he enjoyed a long career as a soldier, so his biography is to a large extent the story of the Italian Wars at the end of the 15th century. The book is therefore a nice twofer, the recounting of incredible ingenuity, stupidity and fortune of Italian and foreign armies, and sweet poetry and philosophy that grows in the hearts of one idealist that participates in them.