Baiae

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-674-02197-6
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 194 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426–1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings of Naples. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, given the subtitle Baiae by their first editor Pietro Summonte, experiment brilliantly with the metrical form associated principally with the ancient Latin poet Catullus. The poems are the elegant offspring of Pontano’s leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples. They are translated here for the first time into English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dennis, Rodney G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Dennis, Rodney G.
Rodney G. Dennis is the retired Curator of Manuscripts at Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library.