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Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1994. (ISBN: 0226436209). Soft Cover, 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. A clean, unmarked copy. Slight shelf wear to wraps. xviii, 484pp. Illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. "Margaret King shows us what one little boy's death over five hundred years ago can tell us about his time. The death of Valerio Marcello, scion of a family of power and privilege at Venice's time of greatness, left his father in a state of despair so profound and so public that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises, and poems. In these documents, we find a firsthand account, richly colored by humanist conventions and expectations, of the life of the fifteenth-century boy, the passionate devotion of his father, the feelings of his brothers and sisters, the striking absence of his mother. The father's story is here as well: the career of a Venetian nobleman and scholar, patron and soldier, a participant in Venice's struggle for dominion in the north of Italy. Through these sources also King traces the cultural trends that made Marcello's century famous. Her work enlarges our view of the literature of consolation, which had a distinctive tradition in Venice, and shifting attitudes toward death from the late Middle Ages onward.". Very Good.

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