ARGONAUT BOOKS

A new biography of the singular French artisan philosopher Bernard Palissy. Reviews This is a marvellously rich yet concise account of the life and work of one of the most idiosyncratic figures of the French Renaissance. Quiviger makes palpable the distinctive philosophy that animated Palissy's experiments in the ceramic arts and that conditioned his unique contributions to the lavish court entertainments of his epoch.Andrea Frisch, Professor of French and Core Faculty in Comparative Literature, University of MarylandBased on the sober modern estimates of the number of Palis...Read More