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Silvae

Angelo Poliziano author Charles Fantazzi editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Published:29th Aug '04

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Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de'Medici "il Magnifico" in Florence. His "Silvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well as of his contemporaries writing in Italian.

At once expansive, elegiac, and exact, Fantazzi's translation brings Poliziano to us with affecting grace. -- William J. Kennedy * Renaissance Quarterly *

  • Nominated for Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies 2002
  • Nominated for Roland H. Bainton Book Prize 2005

ISBN: 9780674014800

Dimensions: 203mm x 133mm x 17mm

Weight: 340g

240 pages