The Beggar and the Professor
A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
416 pages, 26 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table 6 x 9-1/4
©
1997
Cloth $32.00
ISBN: 9780226473239
Published April 1997
Paper $17.00
ISBN: 9780226473246
Published June 1998
Related links: Read Chapter One: Pilgrimage to the Valais.
Author's Note
Part One
Father and Son: Thomas and Felix Platter
1. Pilgrimage to the Valais
Part Two
Childhoods and Undertakings (1499-1551)
2. The Platter Childhoods: Thomas
3. The Platter Childhoods: Felix
4. Platter Enterprises: Thomas
Part Three
Five Years in the Land of Oc (1552-1556)
5. Traveling to Montpellier
6. Living in Montpellier
Part Four
The Year 1557
7. Going to Paris (Spring 1557)
8. The Spring of 1557: Anabasis
9. Summer and Fall: Thesis and Wedding
Part Five
Boy or Girl?
10. Gredlin
11. Tomlin
Notes
Bibliography
Maps
Index
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