Angelo Poliziano's Lamia

Christopher S. Celenza, Dr.Phil. (2001), Classics, University of Hamburg and Ph.D. (1995), History, Duke University, is a professor of post-classical Latin in the Department of German and Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Lost Italian Renaissance (The John Hopkins University Press, 2004) and Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence (Brill, 2001).

"In the introduction, the editor remarks that the purpose of this book is to render Poliziano’s Lamia accessibly, and in the judgment of this reviewer, this standard has easily been met. The inclusion of an English translation and interpretive essays makes it an important complement to Wesseling’s earlier volume, whose detailed line-by-line commentary could conceivably be a cold plunge for some first-time students."M.V. Dougherty, Ohio Dominican University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 162-163.‘’Thanks to Celenza and the contributors to this volume, all kinds of historians regardless of their skill in Latin, have a fascinating newly accessible text to use in their studies.’’Brian Jeffrey Maxson, East Tennessee State University. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 179-180.‘’Felicitazioni a C. Celenza e agli autori tutti per l’uscita di questo bel volume, che costituisce un eccellente complemento all’ed. Wesseling: questa nuova edizione della Lamia sara apprezzata da studiosi e docenti di filologia umanistica e di letteratura neolatina, e risultera di indubbio interesse anche per chi si occupa della storia degli studi greci nel XV secolo.’’Luigi Silvano, Sapienza University of Rome. In: MEG, 11 (2011), p. 288.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsPoliziano’s Lamia in Context, Christopher S. CelenzaOn the Shoulders of Grammatica: John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon and Poliziano’s Lamia, Francesco CarusoThe Role of the Philosopher in Late Quattrocento Florence: Poliziano’s Lamia and the Legacy of the Pico-Barbaro Epistolary Controversy, Igor CandidoAngelo Poliziano’s Lamia: Neoplatonic Commentaries and the Plotinian Dichotomy between the Philologist and the Philosopher, Denis J.-J. RobichaudAngelo Poliziano, Lamia: Latin text, Edited by Christopher S. CelenzaAngelo Poliziano, Lamia: English translation, Translated by Christopher S. CelenzaBibliographyIndex