Greek and Latin poetry / Angelo Poliziano ; edited and translated by Peter E. Knox.
For a young man looking to make his way in the world of fifteenth-century Italy one of the most promising paths to fame and, if not fortune, at least a comfortable life, was literature. That was the path pursued by Angelo Ambrogini, who was born in 1454 in Montepulciano, the city in Tuscany from whi...
Uniform Title: | Poems.
Selections. English I Tatti Renaissance library ; 86. |
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Language: | English Greek, Modern (1453-) Latin |
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Greek, Modern (1453-)
Latin |
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Text in Greek or Latin with English translation on facing pages ; introduction and notes in English. |
Published: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Series: | I Tatti Renaissance library ;
86. |
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Physical Description: | xx, 418 pages ; 22 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Greek and Latin poetry. An elegy for Albiera degli Albizi
- The book of epigrams
- The book of Greek epigrams
- To Bartolomeo Fonzio
- A silva on scabies
- Additional poems
- Dubia.