The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century
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Reprinted from the 1947 first edition. Part of the series Studies of the Warburg Institute no. 15 . The text of this volume traces the history and development of French academies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by consulting Renaissance Italian models, addressing academic founders/leaders and subject matter, and considering the role of the French court in their institution and maintenance. The table of contents is exceptionally clear, listing all the subjects that will be examined beneath their corresponding chapter title. The volume is illustrated with forty-five images, many full page and all in black and white. Eight appendices reproduce or transcribe period texts of importance to the study, and precede a single index for the volume. Slight staining of tail edge near spine. x , 376 pages + 29 leaves of plates in black and white. cloth, leather spine label. 8vo..