Round 11: 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. A survey of “everything worthy of admiration or imitation” by Vincent of Beauvais is titled for a Latin term for these objects 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 “for princes.” For 10 points, Barbara Tuchman compared the 14th century to a “distant” one of what objects depicted in a Parmigianino self-portrait? ■END■
ANSWER: mirrors [or a speculum; or a looking glass; accept mirrors for princes, or specula principum; accept Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror; accept A Distant Mirror; The Mirror of Nature, The Mirror and the Lamp, The Greater Mirror, or Speculum Maius; prompt on glass] (Machiavelli’s The Prince praises Cesare Borgia.)
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