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 southern Italy. The dominant
literary figure of quattrocento Naples, Pontano produced literary
works in several genres and was the leader of the Neapolitan
academy. The two works included in the present volume, broadly
inspired by Virgil, might be considered Pontano's love songs to the
landscapes of Naples. The Eclogues offer a spectacular, panoramic
tour of the Bay of Naples region, even as they focus on intimate
domestic scenes and allegorize the people and places of the poet's
world. The Garden of the Hesperides is a work of brilliant
erudition on an unprecedented poetic topic: the cultivation of
citrus trees and the splendid pleasures of gardens. This volume
features a newly established Latin text of the Garden of the
Hesperides as well as the first published translations of both
works into English.
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