History of Venice

Pietro Bembo

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• Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a Roman Catholic cardinal, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for h... Lees meer

Italy Illuminated

Biondo Flavio

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• Flavio, humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. His Italia Illustrata, here for the first ... Lees meer

Rome in Triumph, Volume 1

Biondo Flavio

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• Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the... Lees meer

Letters to Friends

Bartolomeo Fonzio

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• The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world o... Lees meer

Invectives

Francesco Petrarca

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• Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and ... Lees meer

Commentaries on Plato

Marsilio Ficino

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• Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume conta... Lees meer

Ciceronian Controversies

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• The main literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those Neo-Latin writers favoring Cicero alone as the apotheosis of Latin prose against those follo... Lees meer

Lives of the Popes

Bartolomeo Platina

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• Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II, Platina (1421–1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed this biographical compendium ... Lees meer

Sacred Painting. Museum

Federico Borromeo

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• Federico Borromeo founded the Ambrosiana library, art collection, and academy in Milan. Sacred Painting laid out the rules that artists should follow ... Lees meer

Baiae

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano

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• Pontano was the most innovative, versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, subtitled Baiae, are the elegant offsp... Lees meer

Republics and Kingdoms Compared

Aurelio Lippo Brandolini

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• A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), Republics and Kingdoms Compared depicts a debate between the king... Lees meer

Commentaries

Pius II

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• Commentaries by Pius II (1405–1464)—the only autobiography ever written by a pope—was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicer... Lees meer

Platonic Theology

Marsilio Ficino

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• Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely resp... Lees meer

Writings on Church and Reform

Nicholas of Cusa

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• Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), a student of canon law who became a Catholic cardinal, was widely considered the most important original philosopher of ... Lees meer

Famous Women

Giovanni Boccaccio

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• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of ... Lees meer

Essays and Dialogues

Bartolomeo Scala

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• Scala (1430–1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before... Lees meer

Genealogy of the Pagan Gods

Giovanni Boccaccio

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• The goal of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Rom... Lees meer

History of Venice

Pietro Bembo

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• Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely... Lees meer

History of the Florentine People

Leonardo Bruni

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• Bruni (1370-1444) was the best-selling author of the 15th century, and this book is generally considered the first modern work of history. This volume... Lees meer

Commentaries

Pius II

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• The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. Commentaries, the only auto... Lees meer

Letters

Angelo Poliziano

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• Poliziano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance. This volume illuminates his close friendship with Pico della Mirandola and in... Lees meer

Christiad

Marco Girolamo Vida

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• Marco Girolamo Vida (1485–1566), humanist and bishop, came to prominence as a Latin poet in the Rome of Leo X and Clement VII. Leo commissioned this f... Lees meer

Modern Poets

Lilio Gregorio Giraldi

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• Lilio Gregorio Giraldi authored many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, modeled on Cicero... Lees meer

Short Epics

Maffeo Vegio

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• Maffeo Vegio (1407–1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the 15th century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil’s Aeneid, the ... Lees meer