Biography:Marion Leathers Kuntz

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Short description: American philosopher and academic

Marion Leathers Kuntz (June 9, 1924 – July 10, 2010[1]) was the Regents Professor of Classics at Georgia State University,[2] a researcher in the history of Renaissance thought.[1]

She authored the first English translation of Jean Bodin's Colloquium heptaplomeres de rerum sublimium arcanis abditis (Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime) in 1975.[2]

Her other works include:[2]

  • Guillaume Postel: Prophet of the Restitution of All Things (1981)
  • Venice, Myth and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bodin, Postel and the Virgin of Venice. Variorum Collected Studies Series (1999)[3]
  • The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy (2001)[4][5]

There are others, in total over 35 book chapters and 28 essays and articles.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Her obituary
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Back cover of a book she translated
  3. Eliav-Feldon, Miriam (2000). "Review of Venice, Myth and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bodin, Postel and the Virgin of Venice. Variorum Collected Studies Series". Utopian Studies 11 (2): 275–277. ISSN 1045-991X. 
  4. Kuehn, Thomas (September 2004). "The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy . By Marion Leathers Kuntz. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii+446. $55.00." (in en). The Journal of Modern History 76 (3): 709–710. doi:10.1086/425472. ISSN 0022-2801. 
  5. Bowd, Stephen (June 2003). "Marion Leathers Kuntz. The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 446. $55.00" (in en). The American Historical Review. doi:10.1086/ahr/108.3.936. ISSN 1937-5239. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/108/3/936/25972/Marion-Leathers-Kuntz-The-Anointment-of-Dionisio. 

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