Hostage to fortune : the troubled life of Francis Bacon / Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart.
Pubblicazione:
London : V. Gollancz, 1998.
Descrizione fisica:
637 p., [8] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. A note on dating. Introduction: A life of virtue and mischief. Pt. 1. The bold birth of opportunity (1561-1588): 1. Much hoped imps 2. A protestant abroad 3. Neither well left nor well friended 4. Strange bedfellows: consorting with catholics. Pt. 2. The courtship of favour (1588-1603): 5. Design dissembled: brotherly love 6. A tired sea-sick suitor: the trials of preferment 7. Getting nowhere: the armour of patience pressed 8. Losing ground: matter of charge and accusation 9. Flying with waxen wings: the final fall of Essex. Pt. 3. A precarious power (1603-1621): 10. Dawn of the deserving world 11. No stage-friends: making connections 12. Being politic: the king's business 13. Exchanging favours: Somerset to Villiers 14. Much ado, and a great deal of world 15. A new course of thriving: Lord Chancellor Bacon 16. Franciscan martyr: bribery and the fall of Francis Bacon. Pt. 4. Inventing posterity (1621-1626): 17. Leisure without loitering: Bacon's quinquennium 18. Debt, drugs and bodysnatching: Bacon's legacy. Notes. Bibliography. Index
