Montaigne & Melancholy: The Wisdom of the Essays by M. A. Screech, Marc Fumaroli

Montaigne & Melancholy: The Wisdom of the Essays

M. A. Screech, Marc Fumaroli

208 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced temperament, sanguine and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. When he started his Essa...

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