| Description |
xxxvii, 879 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"First edition." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 861-872. |
| Contents |
The examined life: Socrates -- The apology: -- Before the verdict -- After the verdict and before the sentence -- After the sentence of death -- I Paul the prisoner of Jesus Christ: St. Paul -- "Whom I have begotten in my bonds: -- "I know how to be abased...How to abound" -- The eighth spirit: Boethius -- The consolation of Philosophy -- Bookkeeper of wonderland: Marco Polo -- Of the noble and magnificent city of Kin-Sai -- Prince and poet: James I of Scotland -- The coming of love -- Protestant Pioneer: John Huss -- The dream of John Huss -- The council -- The obstinate heretic -- The private voice: Jeanne D'Arc -- The trail of Jeanne D'Arc -- Alas, poor Yorick! Francios Villon -- The dungeon of Meun-Sur-Loire. Summer of 1461: The debate between the heart and the body of Villon -- Pity, terror, and the last joke, winter of 1463: -- Quatrain -- The epitaph in the form of a ballade -- The request of Villon -- God's ambassador: Christopher Columbus -- Letter to the nurse Juana De La Torres -- A juridt in jail: Hugo Grotius -- of the legal condition of persons -- For thinking in astronomy: Galileo Galilei -- Galileo's Recantation -- First saint of the modern world: Giordano Bruno -- Bruno to the Inquisitors -- I will Not be silent: Tommaso Campanella -- The city of the sun |
| Subject |
Literature -- Collections.
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Literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Collections.
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| Subject |
Prisons.
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Prisons. |
| ISBN |
0836925637 |
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