Ciceronian controversies
By: edited by JoAnn DellaNeva ; English translation by Brian Duvick.
Contributors: DellaNeva, JoAnn.
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance library -- 26.; I Tatti Renaissance library -- 26.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780674025202
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Criticism and interpretation -- History; Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence; Latin letters, Medieval and modern -- Translations into English; Imitation in literature
Genres: Correspondence.; Translations into English.
Description: "The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy is the subject of the texts collected for the first time in this volume: exchange of letters between Angelo Poliziano and Paolo Cortesi; between Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Pietro Bembo; and between Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio and his mentor Celio Calcagnini. A postscript by Lilio Gregorio Giraldi and writings by Antonio Possevino comment further on this correspondence."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.

Letters in Latin with English translations.