Greek and Latin Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-674-98457-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Angelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes epigrams, elegies, and verse epistles, as well as translations of Hellenistic Greek poets. Among the first Latin poets of the Renaissance to be inspired by Homer and the poems of Greek Anthology, Poliziano’s verse also reflects his deep study of Catullus, Martial, and Statius. It ranges from love songs to funeral odes, from prayers to hymns, from invectives directed against his rivals to panegyrics of his teachers, artists, fellow humanists, and his great patron, Lorenzo de’ Medici, “il Magnifico.” The present volume includes all of Poliziano’s Greek and Latin poetry (with the exception of the Silvae, published in 2004 as ITRL 14), all translated into English for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poliziano, Angelo

Knox, Peter E

Weitere Mitwirkende

Knox, Peter E.

Knox, Peter E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Knox, Peter E.
Peter E. Knox is Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor of Classics and Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University.