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Momus (Hardcover)
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Momus (Hardcover)
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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"Momus" is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista
Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man"
of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around
1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus,
the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. Alberti deploys
his singular erudition and wit to satirize subjects from court life
and politics to philosophy and intellectuals, from grand
architectural designs to human and divine folly. The possible
contemporary resonance of Alberti's satire--read variously as a
humanist roman-a-clef and as a veiled mockery of the
mid-Quattrocento papacy--is among its most intriguing aspects.
While his more famous books on architecture, painting, and family
life have long been regarded as indispensable to a study of
Renaissance culture, "Momus" has recently attracted increasing
attention from scholars as a work anticipating the realism of
Machiavelli and the satiric wit of Erasmus. This edition provides a
new Latin text, the first to be based on the two earliest
manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes the
first full translation into English.
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