Carlo Michelstaedter and the Failure of Language by Bini, Daniela - 1992

Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.: University Press of Florida, 1992. This is a study of a little-known Italian-Jewish philosopher, poet, and artist, who committed suicide at the age of 23 in 1910 after completing his dissertation, published posthumously as Persuasion and Rhetoric, a commentary on Plato and Aristotle's relation to the pre-Socratic philosophers and an influential work in modern rhetoric; frontispiece portrait of Michelstaedter (red cloth with silver lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.