Brunetto Latini

<p>First published in 1993. Part of a library on Medieval Literature this volume is a translated version of 'The Book of the Treasure' by Brunetto Latini, who was a teacher of Dante and is remembered in Dante's Inferno in Canto 15<i>. The Book of the Treasure </i>is a compendium of primarily classical material, following in a long tradition of such collections, with origins in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a genre which was finally to die in the Renaissance, when especially the scientific knowledge contained in these pale and corrupt reflections of classical wisdom could no longer compete with the superior scientific material from the Muslim world which began to make its way into Christian Europe as early as the 11th century.</p> Chapter 1; The Book of the Treasure (Li Livres dou Tresor); Chapter 2 This second book speaks of vices and virtues; Chapter 3 Here begins the third book of the Treasure, which gives instructions concerning cities of various types and good speaking in government.; Index of Proper Names; Chapter 4 The Garland Library of Medieval Literature;