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In 1537 Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to three
popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador,
administrator, military captain--and persona non grata with the
ruling Medici after the siege of Florence--retired to his villa to
write a history of his times. His Storia d'Italia became the
classic history of Italy--both a brilliant portrayal of the
Renaissance and a penetrating vision into the tragedy and comedy of
human history in general. Sidney Alexander's readable translation
and abridgment of Guicciardini's four-volume work earned the
prestigious 1970 P.E.N. Club translation award. His perceptive
introduction and notes add much to the understanding of
Guicciardini's masterpiece.
Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the
Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of
Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out
how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged
in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years
later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight
in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the
moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than
mystical exaltation--in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is
the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and
carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with
clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin
culture.
Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and
translator who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years.
Translating a poet of such variety and vitality as Horace calls on
all his literary abilities. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8
bce), was born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy and
rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome and a
confidante of the most powerful figures of the age, including
Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges over politics, the arts,
religion, nature, philosophy, and love, reflecting both his
intimacy with the high affairs of the Roman Empire and his love of
a simple life in the Italian countryside. Alexander translates the
diverse poems of the youthful "Satires" and the more mature "Odes"
with freshness, accuracy, and charm, avoiding affectations of
archaism or modernism. He responds to the challenge of rendering
the complexities of Latin verse in English with literary
sensitivity and a fine ear for the subtleties of poetic rhythm in
both languages. This is a major translation of one of the greatest
of classical poets by an acknowledged master of his craft.
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believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
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culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
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In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
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