9780674021976: Baiae (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 22)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674021975 ISBN 13: 9780674021976
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674021975
ISBN 13 
9780674021976
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272