Cesarini Angelo (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 139 pages ; 24 cm [17x24 cm.] ; ISBN 9788877732552, 8877732555 OCLC 177292255 and 1000887333 ; text in Greek and Italian. ; On cover: 1494-1994 Agnolo Poliziano ; Includes edition of 14 Greek epigrams by Angelo Poliziano with translation into Italian ; illustrated color stiff paper wrappers ; Poliziano was well known as a scholar, a professor, a critic, and a Latin poet in an age when the classics were still studied with assimilative curiosity, and not with the scientific industry of a later period. He was the representative of that age of scholarship in which students drew their ideal of life from antiquity. He was also known as an Italian poet, a contemporary of Ariosto. At the same time, he was busy as a translator from the Greek. His versions of Epictetus, Hippocrates, Galen, Plutarch's Eroticus and Plato's Charmides distinguished him as a writer. Of these learned labours, the most universally acceptable to the public of that time were a series of discursive essays on philology and criticism, first published in 1489 under the title of Miscellanea. They had an immediate and lasting effect, influencing the scholars of the next century. --Wikipedia ; FINE. Book.

8vo, pp. 181, [1]; text in Latin and Italian; contemporary brown wrappers, remains of old manuscript label on spine; some leaf edges curled at the back, but overall very good, sound, and clean. Not in Mills College Check List or Riedel-Horatiana. Listed in OCLC but without locations.