Life of Bernini

Initially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass's translation of Filippo Baldinucci's Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of this historic biography. Out of print for many years, The Life of Bernini is now availablein a new paperback edition with an introductionby Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy, and Steven F. Ostrow, the editors of Bernini's Biographies.Baldinucci's unusual stand-alone biography of Bernini, begun while his subject was still alive, offers important insights into contemporary perceptions of the artist, the motivations of its author, and the nature of literary biographyin seventeenth-century Italy.Baldinucci, Filippo is the author of 'Life of Bernini ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780271730769 and ISBN 0271730765.