Euphorion

This 2-volume book is one of the best-known works by the British author Violet Paget that features the studies of the antique and the mediaeval in the Renaissance, symbolically named Euphorion after the marvelous child born of the mystic marriage of Faust and Helena from Goethe's drama. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Contents: Introduction The Sacrifice The Italy of the Elizabethan Dramatists The Outdoor Poetry Symmetria Prisca The Portrait Art The School of Boiardo Mediaeval Love Epilogue

Vernon Lee (real name Violet Paget, 1856-1935) was a British writer who is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. Along with Pater and John Addington Symonds, she was considered an authority on the Italian Renaissance, and wrote two works that dealt with it explicitly, Euphorion (1884) and Renaissance Fancies and Studies (1895).