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Article: L'art de la lettre humaniste.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2006
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Guy Gueudet. L'art de la lettre humaniste.
Ed. Francine Wild. Bibliotheque litteraire de la Renaissance 60. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2004. 724 pp. index. append. bibl. [euro]129. ISBN: 2-7453-1009-7.
Francine Wild's edition of collected, unpublished papers by Guy Gueudet opens with an "In Memoriam" of the late Maitre de Conference of the Universite de Nancy 2, written in May 1988 by Gisele Mathieu-Castellani. A foreword by Catherine Magnien-Simonin describes his study of Guillaume Bude's correspondence against the history of Renaissance letter writing as "cruellement inacheve." Readers who want an accessible, up-to-date overview of the Renaissance ...