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Beloved son Felix : coming of age in the Renaissance / Felix Platter ; translated and introduced by Sean Jennett ; with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Platter, Felix, 1536-1614, author.
- Series:
- McNally Editions ; no. 49
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Platter, Felix, 1536-1614.
- Platter, Felix.
- Université de Montpellier. Faculté de médecine.
- Université de Montpellier.
- Medical students--France--History--16th century.
- Medical students.
- Medical students--Biography.
- Medical students--Diaries.
- Medicine--Study and teaching--France--Montpellier.
- Medicine.
- Physicians--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Physicians--Diaries.
- Montpellier (France)--History--16th century.
- Montpellier (France).
- Genre:
- diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 164 pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First McNally Editions paperback.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McNally Editions, 2026.
- Summary:
- "In 1552, sixteen-year-old Felix Platter left Basel, Switzerland, and journeyed 370 miles to Montpelier, France to study medicine. His journals chronicle five astonishing years of youth in a time of plague, war, and awakening. A Protestant in a Catholic kingdom, Felix witnessed blood-chilling executions and engaged in secret religious discussions with his landlord, a Marrano Jew. He learned to play the lute, tasted olive oil for the first time, and swam in the sea. He flirted (unsuccessfully) and danced (disastrously), fled from highway robbers, saw John Calvin preach, survived an outbreak of the bubonic plague, joined in a massive, orange-throwing food fight, acquired a dog, and spent one Christmas Eve alone and afraid of the dark. Most astonishing of all, he wrote it down."-- Amazon.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The journal. The journey from Basel to Montpellier ; A student in Montpellier ; Return home to Basel
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 1961 by Frederick Muller, Ltd., London"--Title page verso.
- "The wildly vivid and uncommonly revealing journals of a sixteenth-century medical student"--Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-159).
- ISBN:
- 9781961341685
- 1961341689
- OCLC:
- 1549670860
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