內容簡介 | Ostensibly a formal treatise on letters and letterforms, Geofroy Tory's Champ Fleury is a marvelously personal work that reveals much about the experiences, perceptions, and attitudesof the prototypical Renaissance man. Taken literally, champ fleury means "flowery fields"; written as a single word, it is an old French idiom for "paradise." Tory clearly chose the title to connote the variety of ideas rooted in his everyday experience as a sholar, editor, scribe, illuminator, and bookseller, His analysis of letters, for instance, was not limited to their construction and visual presentation, but also included larger issues of language and literature. This Octavo Edition includes a commentary, bibiographical notes, and complete images of the origianl 1529 work and of the lavish 1927 translation designed by Bruce Rogers.<摘錄自媒體封面或內頁> |