The friar in fiction, Sincerity in art, and other essays.
Title:
The friar in fiction, Sincerity in art, and other essays.
Author:
Kennard, Joseph Spencer, 1859-1944.
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Publication Information:
New York : Brentano's, 1923.
Physical Description:
388 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
Eight of these sixteen essays appeared in an earlier work under the title: The fallen god, and other essays in literature and art, Philadelphia, 1901.
Language:
English
Contents:
Some friars in English fiction.--The friar in German fiction.--Frère Jean des Entommeures.--The friars of Dante, Boccaccio and Michiavelli.--Two fictional friars.--Savonarola.--Joseph the dreamer.--Unity in art.--Sincerity in art.--Women in the Italian novel.--The hearing of music as sensuous and a spiritual pleasure.--Niccola Pisano, the father of modern Italian sculpture.--Edmondo de Amicis.--Some early printers and their colophons.--The fallen god.--Avingnon.
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Book