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Portraits of the Queen Mother : polemics, panegyrics, letters / Catherine de Médicis and others ; translation and study by Leah L. Chang and Katherine Kong.
- Title
- Portraits of the Queen Mother : polemics, panegyrics, letters / Catherine de Médicis and others ; translation and study by Leah L. Chang and Katherine Kong.
- Publication
- Toronto : Iter Inc. : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DC119.8 .P66 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 283 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- The other voice in early modern Europe. The Toronto series ; 35
- Uniform Title
- Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series 35.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Records and correspondence
- Sources
- Records and correspondence.
- Sources.
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- "Portraits of the Queen Mother brings together selected texts contemporary to Catherine's queenship including ambassadorial reports, polemical pamphlets, and panegyric biography, alongside Catherine's own letters to show how the authority of this queen was carefully constructed and challenged through everal important textual genres of the period."--Page 2.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Letters of Catherine de Medicis, Selections -- Relazioni of the Venetian Ambassadors on the Affairs of France in the Sixteenth Century, Selections -- Marvelous Discourse on the Life, Actions, and Deportment of Catherine de Medicis, Queen Mother (1576), Selections -- Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, "Second Discourse on the Queen, Mother of Our Last Kings, Catherine de Medicis," Selections. From Book of Ladies, Poetry, and Funerary Writings -- Appendix -- "Letters of Naturalization for Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Catherine, His Daughter" -- "Copy of Letters Sent to the Queen Mother by One of Her Servants after the Death of the Late King Henri II" -- An Alarm for the French and Their Neighbors. Composed by Eusebe Philadelphe Cosmopolite, in the Form of Dialogues, Selections -- The Tocsin, against the Slaughterers and Perpetrators of Confusion in France (1577), Selections -- Oration Given at the Funeral Rites of the Queen Mother of the King by Monsieur Renaud de Beaune, Selections -- Etienne Pasquier on the Death of the Queen Mother.
- ISBN
- 9780772721723 (pbk.)
- 0772721726 (pbk.)
- 9780772721730 (pdf.)
- 0772721734 (pdf.)
- LCCN
- ^^2015301173
- OCLC
- 891408454
- SCSB-12730879
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library