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 Kings of
Aragon and southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of
quattrocento Naples, Pontano produced literary works in several
genres and was the leader of the Neapolitan academy. Among his
large poetic output are the two brilliantly original poetical
cycles that comprise the present volume. On Married Love stakes out
new ground in the Western tradition as the first sustained
exploration of married love in first-person poetry. In Eridanus,
which celebrates the poet's love for a mistress, Pontano combines
the familiar motifs of courtly love with the allusive matrix of
classical elegy and his own distinctive vision. Both works are here
translated into English for the first time.
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