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Poems
Cristoforo Landino
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Description for Poems
Hardback. Includes poems that illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de' Medici. Translator(s): Chatfield, Mary P. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498), one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, is best known today for his Platonizing commentaries on Dante and Virgil. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra, written while still a young man. They consist primarily of love poetry in Latin directed to his lady-love Alessandra, but they also chronicle his life, friendships, interests, and growing political awareness. Inspired equally by the ancient Roman love-elegy and by Petrarch's Canzoniere , the poems illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de' Medici.Also included in this ... Read more
Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498), one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, is best known today for his Platonizing commentaries on Dante and Virgil. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra, written while still a young man. They consist primarily of love poetry in Latin directed to his lady-love Alessandra, but they also chronicle his life, friendships, interests, and growing political awareness. Inspired equally by the ancient Roman love-elegy and by Petrarch's Canzoniere , the poems illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de' Medici.Also included in this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
546g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674031487
SKU
V9780674031487
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About Cristoforo Landino
Mary P. Chatfield is the former Head of the Classics Department at the Commonwealth School, Boston, and the editor and translator of Pietro Bembo's Lyric Poetry (ITRL 18).
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