Miscellanies, Volume 2 (Hardcover)

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year Angelo 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 and a "second century" unfinished at his death, constitute the most innovative contribution to classical philology of the Renaissance. Each chapter is a mini-essay on some lexical or textual problem which Poliziano, drawing on the riches of the Medici Library and Lorenzo's collection of antiquities, solves with his characteristic mixture of deep learning, analytic skill, and brash criticism of his predecessors. Volume 1 presents a new Latin edition of The First Century of the Miscellanies, and these volumes together present the first translation of both collections into any modern language.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Release date:	March 2020
Authors:	Angelo Poliziano
Editors:	Andrew R. Dyck • Alan Cottrell
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-24496-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Latin
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Promotions
LSN:	0-674-24496-6
Barcode:	9780674244962

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