Momus

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-674-00754-3
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. Alberti deploys his singular erudition and wit to satirize subjects from court life and politics to philosophy and intellectuals, from grand architectural designs to human and divine folly. The possible contemporary resonance of Alberti's satire—read variously as a humanist roman-à-clef and as a veiled mockery of the mid-Quattrocento papacy—is among its most intriguing aspects. While his more famous books on architecture, painting, and family life have long been regarded as indispensable to a study of Renaissance culture, Momus has recently attracted increasing attention from scholars as a work anticipating the realism of Machiavelli and the satiric wit of Erasmus. This edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on the two earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes the first full translation into English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alberti, Leon Battista

Knight, Sarah

Brown, Virginia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Knight, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Über Autor(innen)

Brown, Virginia
Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

Knight, Sarah
Sarah Knight is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester.