Author: Conversini Da Ravenna, Giovanni & Eaker, Helen Lanneau [editor]
Title: Giovanni Conversini Da Ravenna - Dialogue Between Giovanni And A Letter
Description: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Tempe - The Renaissance Society of America, New York, 1998, 1st edition. Cloth, F. xii+189pp, b/w frontis, 1 b/w illustration, a fine copy. Parallel Latin - English text. MRTS vol 59. Hardback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 0866980431 ¶ A critical study of the earliest major work of the Italian Renaissance humanist Giovanni Conversini ( John of Ravenna ) [ 1343 - 1408 ]. The 'Dialogus inter Johannem et Literam' was written in late 1378 to mark the occasion of the elevation of Conversini's uncle to the position of Cardinal by Pope Urban VI. As such the it is the first Humanist biography of a major religious figure of the late medieval period.

Keywords: ISBN 0866980431, medieval literature, renaissance literature 0866980431