Round 10: Tossup 12

One of these objects titles William Caxton’s translation of a text by Gautier de Metz, often called the first illustrated book printed in English. A journal named for one of these objects is published by the Medieval Academy of America. (15[1])A survey of “everything worthy of admiration or imitation” by Vincent of Beauvais is titled for a Latin term for these objects (15[1])that in the Middle Ages referred to (*) compendia of knowledge. Early modern criticism analogized to these objects was contrasted with “the lamp” by M. H. Abrams. Erasmus’s Education and a treatise that disparages mercenaries while praising Cesare Borgia are entries in a Renaissance genre titled for these objects (10[1])“for princes.” (10[1])For 10 points, Barbara Tuchman compared the 14th century to a “distant” one of what objects depicted in a Parmigianino self-portrait? ■END■

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