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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 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.
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429–1503) served five kings of Naples
as a courtier, official, and diplomat, and earned even greater fame
as a scholar, prose author, and poet. His Dialogues reflect his
diverse interests in religion, philosophy, and literature, as well
as in everyday life in fifteenth-century Naples. They are
especially important for their vivid picture of the contemporary
gatherings of Pontano and his friends in the humanist academy over
which he presided from around 1471 until shortly before his death.
Volume 2 includes the Actius, named for one of its principal
speakers, the great Neo-Latin poet Jacopo Sannazaro, and contains a
perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full treatment of
the Latin hexameter in the history of philology. The dialogue
continues with a discussion of style and method in history writing,
a landmark in the history of historiography. This is a new critical
edition of the Actius and the first translation of this dialogue
into English.
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429–1503) served five kings of Naples
as a courtier, official, and diplomat, and earned even greater fame
as a scholar, prose author, and poet. His Dialogues reflect his
diverse interests in religion, philosophy, and literature, as well
as in everyday life in fifteenth-century Naples. They are
especially important for their vivid picture of the contemporary
gatherings of Pontano and his friends in the humanist academy over
which he presided from around 1471 until shortly before his death.
This volume completes the I Tatti edition of Pontano’s five
surviving dialogues and features both Aegidius and Asinus. The
conversation in Aegidius, named for the Augustinian theologian
Giles of Viterbo, ranges over various topics, including creation,
dreams, free will, the immortality of the soul, the relation
between heaven and earth, language, astrology, and mysticism. The
Asinus is less a dialogue than a fantastical autobiographical
comedy in which Pontano himself is represented as having gone mad
and fallen in love with an ass. This is the first translation of
these dialogues into English.
Giovanni Pontano, who adopted the academic sobriquet "Gioviano,"
was prime minister to several kings of Naples and the most
important Neapolitan humanist of the quattrocento. Best known today
as a Latin poet, he also composed dialogues depicting the
intellectual life of the humanist academy of which he was the head,
and, late in life, a number of moral essays that became his most
popular prose works. The De sermone (On Speech), translated into
English here for the first time, aims to provide a moral anatomy,
following Aristotelian principles, of various aspects of speech
such as truthfulness and deception, flattery, gossip, loquacity,
calumny, mercantile bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule. In each
type of speech, Pontano tries to identify what should count as the
virtuous mean, that which identifies the speaker as a person of
education, taste, and moral probity.
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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Baiae (Hardcover)
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano; Translated by Rodney G. Dennis
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R782
Discovery Miles 7 820
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Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) 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 Books of
Hendecasyllables," given the subtitle "Baiae" by their first editor
Pietro Summonte, experiment brilliantly with the metrical form
associated principally with the ancient Latin poet Catullus. The
poems are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to
celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the
pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the
Bay of Naples. They are translated here for the first time into
English.
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 led for several decades. They
provide a vivid picture of literary life in the capital of the
Aragonese seaborne empire, based in southern Italy and the Western
Mediterranean. This first volume contains the two earliest of
Pontano's five dialogues. Charon, set in the underworld of
classical mythology, illustrates humanist attitudes to a wide range
of topics, satirizing the follies and superstitions of humanity.
Antonius, a Menippean satire named for the founder of the
Neapolitan Academy, Antonio Beccadelli, is set in the Portico
Antoniano in downtown Naples, where the academicians commemorate
and emulate their recently-deceased leader, conversing on favorite
topics and stopping from time to time to interrogate passersby.
This volume contains a freshly-edited Latin text of these dialogues
and the first translation of them into English.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text.
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