Baiae (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano

ISBN 10: 0674021975 / ISBN 13: 9780674021976

Published by Harvard University Press, 2006

About this Item

Book has very light foxing on the top edge of the text block but there are no other issues inside or out. The dust jacket is in fine condition. Beautifully printed with a sewn binding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Baiae (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674021975
• ISBN 13: 9780674021976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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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.

About the Author

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