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Baiae
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
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Description for Baiae
Hardback. Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429 - 1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy and a versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. The poems that were written celebrated love and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples. This work contains English translation of these poems. Translator(s): Dennis, Rodney G. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
381g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674021976
SKU
V9780674021976
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About Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
Rodney G. Dennis is the retired Curator of Manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Reviews for Baiae
Pontano's Baiae have now appeared in an elegant and lucid English translation by Rodney G. Dennis in the I Tatti Renaissance Library; like all the volumes in this superb new series, the book has been beautifully produced... The I Tatti volumes with their royal blue covers, spacious layout of both Latin text and facing translation, and discreet but detailed annotation, ... Read more