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Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), viii+407 pp. $29.95 ISBN 0 226 47323 6

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth Century Family Saga.... BOOK REVIEWS Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Chicago: University of Chi- cago Press, 1997), viii+407 pp. $29.95 ISBN 0 226 47323 6. In 1521, at the age of twenty-one, Thomas Platter had just learned to read and speak Latin. Cast out by his impoverished mother, Thomas had spent his child- hood as a goat-herd and his teenage years roaming from Switzerland to Hungary with other young beggars, picking up food and bits of learning wherever he could. In 1557, at twenty-one, his eldest son, Felix, received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Basle. Felix had grown up surrounded by Basle's lively community of humanist scholars, physicians, and printers; at fifteen, he had set out on a grand tour of French medical schools. Felix's much younger brother and ward, Thomas Jr., recapitulated his travels and career forty years later. The first-hand accounts of the Platter family's rise from rags to respectability- told in the father's autobiography and the sons' travel-journals-have been long recognized as a historian's treasure-trove. The Platters were curious and open- minded, if not analytical, about everything and everybody they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early Science and Medicine Brill

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), viii+407 pp. $29.95 ISBN 0 226 47323 6

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Early Science and Medicine , Volume 3 (4): 348 – Jan 1, 1998
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© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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BOOK REVIEWS Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Chicago: University of Chi- cago Press, 1997), viii+407 pp. $29.95 ISBN 0 226 47323 6. In 1521, at the age of twenty-one, Thomas Platter had just learned to read and speak Latin. Cast out by his impoverished mother, Thomas had spent his child- hood as a goat-herd and his teenage years roaming from Switzerland to Hungary with other young beggars, picking up food and bits of learning wherever he could. In 1557, at twenty-one, his eldest son, Felix, received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Basle. Felix had grown up surrounded by Basle's lively community of humanist scholars, physicians, and printers; at fifteen, he had set out on a grand tour of French medical schools. Felix's much younger brother and ward, Thomas Jr., recapitulated his travels and career forty years later. The first-hand accounts of the Platter family's rise from rags to respectability- told in the father's autobiography and the sons' travel-journals-have been long recognized as a historian's treasure-trove. The Platters were curious and open- minded, if not analytical, about everything and everybody they

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