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Odes
Francesco Filelfo
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Description for Odes
Hardback. Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance. "The Odes", completed in the mid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity and are a major literary achievement. This title offers an English translation of this book. Editor(s): Robin, Diana. Translator(s): Robin, Diana. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 145 x 31. Weight in Grams: 606.
Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His long life saw him as busy with politics, diplomacy, and intrigue as with literature and scholarship, leaving him very often on the run from rival factions - and even from hired assassins. The first Latin poet of the Renaissance to explore the expressive potential of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the traditions of Augustan literature to address personal and political concerns in ... Read more
Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His long life saw him as busy with politics, diplomacy, and intrigue as with literature and scholarship, leaving him very often on the run from rival factions - and even from hired assassins. The first Latin poet of the Renaissance to explore the expressive potential of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the traditions of Augustan literature to address personal and political concerns in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
606g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674035638
SKU
V9780674035638
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About Francesco Filelfo
Diana Robin is Professor Emerita of Classics, University of New Mexico, and Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library.
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