Name: The Diaries of Felix Platter. Coming of Age in the Renaissance
SKU: 64842549
Price: 7849.00 CRC
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Author: Felix Platter
ISBN: 9781961341685

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The Diaries of Felix Platter. Coming of Age in the Renaissance

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

McNally Jackson Books

Autor

Felix Platter

Año

2026

N° páginas

176

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.5x12.7 cm

ISBN13

9781961341685

The Diaries of Felix Platter. Coming of Age in the Renaissance

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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 miles to Montpelier, France to study medicine. His journals chronicle five astonishing years of youth in a time of plague, war, and awakening. A Protestant in a Catholic kingdom, Felix witnessed blood-chilling executions and engaged in secret religious discussions with his landlord, a Marrano Jew. He learned to play the lute, tasted olive oil for the first time, and swam in the sea. He flirted (unsuccessfully) and danced (disastrously), fled from highway robbers, saw John Calvin preach, survived an outbreak of the bubonic plague, joined in a massive, orange-throwing food fight, acquired a dog, and spent one Christmas Eve alone and afraid of the dark. Most astonishing of all, he wrote it down. As Stephen Greenblatt writes in his introduction to this new edition, “Keeping diaries and writing autobiographies did not become a widespread practice until the mid-seventeenth century”—but Felix created an astonishing document: an intimate, sometimes hilarious chronicle of Renaissance adolescence from the inside, whose “vividness, intimacy, candor, and charm” lend it an “altogether rare and revealing character.”