Letters - Books I-Iv

Informationen zum Autor Shane Butler is Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of the Age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." His correspondence gives us an intimate glimpse of the revival of classical literature from the pen of a man at the very center of the Renaissance movement. This volume illuminates his close friendship with the philosopher Pico della Mirandola and includes much of the correspondence concerning the composition and reception of his "Miscellanies," a revolutionary work of philology. It also includes his famous and moving letter on the death of Lorenzo de' Medici. This volume contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and the first translation of the letters into English. Zusammenfassung Poliziano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance. This volume illuminates his close friendship with Pico della Mirandola and includes much of the correspondence about the composition and reception of his Miscellanies, a revolutionary work of philology. It also includes his famous letter on the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.

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• Authors: Angelo Poliziano, Poliziano Angelo
• Assisted by: Shane Butler (Editor), Shane Butler (Translation), Butler Shane (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2006
• EAN: 9780674021969
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02196-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; Tatti Renaissance Library (HUP) CONTINS PASS TO - [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Latin, Literary essays