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Sto caricando le informazioni... John Aubrey: my own life (2015)di Ruth Scurr
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It's hard to think of a biographical work in recent years that has been so bold and so wholly successful. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
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HTML:Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in Englandâ??writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmenâ??and wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled Brief Lives, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography. Aubrey was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1626. The reign of Queen Elizabeth and, earlier, the dissolution of the monasteries were not too far distant in memory during his boyhood. He lived through England's Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the brief rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son, and the restoration of Charles II. Experiencing these constitutional crises and regime changes, Aubrey was impassioned by the preservation of traces of Ancient Britain, of English monuments, manor houses, monasteries, abbeys, and churches. He was a natural philosopher, an antiquary, a book collector, and a chronicler of the world around him and of the lives of his friends, both men and women. His method of writing was characteristic of his manner: modest, self-deprecating, witty, and concerned above all with the collection of facts that would otherwise be lost to time. John Aubrey, My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey's days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurr's biography honors and echoes Aubrey's own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidenceâ??the remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and booksâ??and arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubrey's intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles I's execution ("On this day, the King was executed. It was bitter cold, so he wore two heavy shirts, lest he should shiver and seem afraid"); and Aubrey on antiquity ("Matters of antiquity are like the light after sunsetâ??clear at firstâ??but by and by crepusculumâ??the twilightâ??comesâ??then total darkness"). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of th Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The author stitches together a diary, along the lines of Pepys, from the source material available about John Aubrey. It's an odd concept, but works so very well.
Aubrey was a figure in 17th century England, an early member of the Royal SOciety, but with only limited personal achievements. The author shines a light on this modest life, and shows how he was an original thinker, sceptical (except for Astrology) and a great facilitator linking other people and other ideas.
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