Renaissance Quarterly

Julia Haig Gaisser
The Reception of Plutarch’s Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy (review)
Renaissance Quarterly - Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 2008, pp. 499-501

Renaissance Society of America

Project MUSE - Renaissance Quarterly - The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy (review) Project MUSE Journals Renaissance Quarterly Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 2008 The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy (review) Renaissance Quarterly Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 2008 E-ISSN: 1935-0236 Print ISSN: 0034-4338 DOI: 10.1353/ren.0.0064 Reviewed by Julia Haig GaisserBryn Mawr College Marianne Pade. The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy.2 vols. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2007. 644 pp. + 18 color pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $105. ISBN: 978-87-635-0532-1. Plutarch's Lives were essential reading in the Italian Renaissance, especially for powerful men who wanted to emulate or be seen to emulate the great politicians and generals of antiquity. In this book Marianne Pade demonstrates the point by tracing and discussing the sixty-two Latin translations of Plutarch's Lives made from 1400 to 1462. In the first volume she discusses each translation with attention to its translator,...