Humanist comedies
By: edited and translated by Gary R. Grund.
Contributors: Grund, Gary R. 1946-
Series: ITRL -- 19
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Latin drama, Medieval and modern -- Translations into English; Latin drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English; Latin drama, Medieval and modern; Latin drama (Comedy); Humanists
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "The five comedies included in this volume, three of which have never been translated into English, present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier Paolo Vergerio's Paulus (ca. 1390), Philodoxeos fabula (1424) by Leon Battista Alberti, Philogenia et Epiphebus (ca. 1440) by Ugolino Pisani, Chrysis (1444) by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), and Tommaso Medio's Epirota (1483) span nearly the entire period and are a valuable gauge of its changing literary tastes, tastes nourished by the ancient comic drama of Plautus and Terence. While the earliest of the humanist comedies seem almost medieval in their moralism, the didacticism of the pulpit is cleverly seasoned with the unabashed realism of the brothel to produce a mixture that looks forward to the more modern, sophisticated comedies written in the vernacular during the Cinquecento."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Translated from the Latin.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-455) and index.
Table of contents: title: Paulus / Pier Paolo Vergerio; title: The play of Philodoxus / Leon Battista Alberti; title: Philogenia and Epiphebus / Ugolino Pisani; title: Chrysis / Enea Silvio Piccolomini; title: The epirote / Tommaso Mezzo.