Silvae

Author/Contributor(s):	Poliziano, Angelo ; Fantazzi, Charles ; Fantazzi, Charles
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Date:	07/30/2004
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de'Medici il Magnifico in Florence. His Silvae are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well as of his contemporaries writing in Italian.