Silvae
By: Angelo Poliziano ; edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi.
Contributors: Fantazzi, Charles.
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance library ;; 14
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Poetry.; Mythology, Classical -- Poetry.
Genres: Translations into English.; Poetry.
Description: "Angelo Poliziano (154-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo deMedici "il Magnifico" in Florence. His "Silvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, writtne in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Reaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well as of his contemporaries writing in Italian."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Text in English and Latin.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205) and index.