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Platonic Theology, Volume 1
Books I–IV
Av Marsilio Ficino, James Hankins
Inbunden, 2001
347 kr
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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to …
Platonic Theology, Volume 2
Books V–VIII
Av Marsilio Ficino, James Hankins
Inbunden, 2002
363 kr
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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to …
Platonic Theology, Volume 4
Books XII–XIV
Av Marsilio Ficino, James Hankins
Inbunden, 2004
357 kr
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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to …
On Leaders and Tyrants
Av Poggio Bracciolini, Guarino of Verona m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
371 kr
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The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership.Poggio Bracciolini was a prominent scholar-official of the early Renaissance and a leading representative of Florentine humanism. He was employed as a secretary to seven …
Phaedrus and Ion
Av Marsilio Ficino, Michael J. B. Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
306 kr
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Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. The publication of his Latin translations of the dialogues in 1484 was an intellectual event of the first magnitude, making the Platonic canon accessible to western …
Famous Women
Av Giovanni Boccaccio, Virginia Brown
Inbunden, 2001
325 kr
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After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch’s humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted …
Biographical Writings
Av Giannozzo Manetti, Stefano U. Baldassarri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
325 kr
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The Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors from Petrarch to Machiavelli. The orator, diplomat, and statesman Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), an expert in Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin, was …
Humanist Comedies
Inbunden, 2005
352 kr
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The five comedies included in this volume, three of which have never been translated into English, present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier Paolo Vergerio's Paulus (ca. 1390), Philodoxeos fabula …
Baldo, Volume 2 – Books XIII–XXV
Books XIII-XXV
Inbunden, 2008
352 kr
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Teofilo Folengo (1491–1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and a satirist of monasticism. In 1517 he published, under the pseudonym Merlin Cocaio, the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo, later enlarged and elaborated. It blended Latin …
Poems
Av Cristoforo Landino, Mary P. Chatfield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
352 kr
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Cristoforo Landino (1424–1498), one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, is best known today for his Platonizing commentaries on Dante and Vergil. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra, written while still a young man. They consist primarily of love poetry in …
Notable Men and Women of Our Time
Av Paolo Giovio, Kenneth Gouwens
Inbunden, 2013
352 kr
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Written in the aftermath of the catastrophic sack of Rome in 1527, the historian Paolo Giovio’s dialogue provides an informed perspective on the event from an intimate friend of Pope Clement VII. The work is also remarkable for its discussions of literary style and the much-debated question whether …
Poems
Inbunden, 2012
352 kr
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Michael Marullus (c. 1453/4–1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar who worked in Florence and Naples. He married the beautiful and learned Alessandra Scala, daughter of the humanist Bartolomeo Scala, chancellor of Florence, and his …
Humanist Tragedies
Inbunden, 2011
352 kr
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Humanist Tragedies, like its companion volume Humanist Comedies (ITRL 19), contains a representative sampling of Latin drama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. The five tragedies included in this volume—Albertino Mussato’s Ecerinis (1314), Antonio Loschi’s Achilleis (ca. 1387), Gregorio …
On Exile
Av Francesco Filelfo, Jeroen De Keyser
Inbunden, 2013
306 kr
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Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation, and the best way to endure and even profit …
Eclogues. Garden of the Hesperides
Av Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Luke Roman
Inbunden, 2022
352 kr
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A renowned Renaissance poet’s homage to Naples makes its debut in modern English translation.Giovanni Pontano (1429–1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of …
Angelinetum and Other Poems
Inbunden, 2016
352 kr
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Giovanni Marrasio (d. 1452), a humanist poet from Noto in Sicily, spent the major part of his poetic career in Siena and Ferrara before returning to Palermo in the role of a medical doctor serving the University of Palermo. In Siena, Naples, and Palermo he hovered on the edge of the courts of the …
On Methods
Books I-II
Av Jacopo Zabarella, John P. McCaskey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
306 kr
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Jacopo Zabarella's two treatises On Methods and On Regressus (1578) are among the most important Renaissance discussions of how scientific knowledge should be acquired, arranged, and transmitted. They belong to a lively debate about the order in which sciences should be taught and the method to be …
Greek and Latin Poetry
Av Angelo Poliziano, Peter E. Knox m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
352 kr
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Angelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes epigrams, elegies, and verse epistles, as well as translations of Hellenistic Greek poets. Among …
Antiquity
Av Bartolomeo Platina, Anthony F. D'Elia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
306 kr
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Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended it as the head of the Vatican Library. A papal official under the humanist Pope Pius II, he was a member of the humanist academies of Cardinal Bessarion …
Selected Letters, Volume 1
Inbunden, 2017
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325 kr
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Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating …
My Secret Book
Av Francesco Petrarca, Nicholas Mann
Inbunden, 2016
352 kr
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Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book (Secretum) records “the private conflict of my thoughts,” in …
Later Travels
Av Cyriac of Ancona, Edward W. Bodnar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
352 kr
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Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world …
On Discovery
Av Polydore Vergil, Brian P. Copenhaver m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
306 kr
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The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions written since antiquity. Thirty Latin editions …
History of the Florentine People
Books V–VIII
Av Leonardo Bruni, James Hankins
Inbunden, 2004
315 kr
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Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth …
History of the Florentine People, Volume 3 – Books IX–XII. Memoirs
Books IX-XII. Memoirs
Av Leonardo Bruni, James Hankins
Inbunden, 2007
315 kr
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Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth …
Baiae
Inbunden, 2006
352 kr
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Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426–1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings of Naples. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two …
On the Donation of Constantine
Inbunden, 2007
306 kr
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Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, On Elegance in the Latin Language, which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and Dialectical Disputations, a wide-ranging attack on …
Latin Poetry
Inbunden, 2009
352 kr
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Jacopo Sannazaro (1456–1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Accademia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having written, in Italian, the first pastoral …
Miscellanies, Volume 1
Av Angelo Poliziano, Andrew R. Dyck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
352 kr
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An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearAngelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici, “il Magnifico.” The poet’s Miscellanies, including a “first century” published in 1489 …
Dialogues Volume 1 – Charon and Antonius
Charon and Antonius
Av Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Julia Haig Gaisser
Inbunden, 2012
306 kr
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Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples which Pontano …
