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Lorenzo Ghiberti's second commentary in context: with a new transcription, English translation, and commentary

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"This study is the fruit of a long and often interrupted study of Ghiberti's three commentaries on art. Its original purpose was to present a critical English translation of Ghiberti's second commentary and to bring the notes in Julis van Schlosser's foundational work of 1912 into accordance with later discoveries and criticism. It was soon realized, however, that the second commentary, although able to stand on its own as a fundamental source for the history of Italian sculpture and painting of the late Duecento and Trecento and for Ghiberti's work, could not be fully understood without being considered in the context of the book as a whole. The dissertation was revised and expanded but remained incomplete. Prodded by my son and his wife, I agreed that it was important to finish it and get it out in published form."-- Provided by publisher.

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    Scarborough, Maine: Janice L. Hurd, 2022

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    9798218008642

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    • "[This study] began as an M.A. thesis that became the basis for a Ph.D. dissertation at Bryn Mawr College...."--Preface, page xi.
    • "Ghiberti's writing has fortuitously survived in a single, non-autograph, and highly defective copy now in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence....I have included in Appendix I a facsimile of the text (folios 8v-12v of Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, II.I.333)."--Preface, pages xi-xii.

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