Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The Frugal Life: A Paradox

Landi, Ortensio, 1512?-1553?; Axon, William E. A. (William Edward Armytage), 1846-1913 [Author of introduction, etc.]· 1 chapters· 2,887 words

The friendship of Nicholas Ferrar, the head of the remarkable household at Little Gidding, and of the saintly George Herbert, is a pleasant episode of seventeenth century history. One of its results was the appearance at Cambridge in 1634 of a little volume, entitled “Hygiasti...

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The friendship of Nicholas Ferrar, the head of the remarkable household at Little Gidding, and of the saintly George Herbert, is a pleasant episode of seventeenth century histor...