The friar in fiction : Sincerity in art, and other essays.

Author/creator Kennard, Joseph Spencer
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Brentano's, 1923.
Description388 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

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.--Avignon.
General noteEight of these sixteen essays appeared in an earlier work under the title: The fallen god, and other essays in literature and art, Philadelphia, 1901.
Other titleSincerity in art.
LCCN 23017498