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LETTERS TO FRIENDS
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| By: |
Bartolomeo Fonzio, Alessandro Daneloni (Editor), Martin Davies (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£29.95 |
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£23.96 |
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674058364 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674058361 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 May, 2011 |
| Series: |
The I Tatti Renaissance Library v. 47 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Translated from: |
Latin |
| Description: |
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 of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl. |
| Synopsis: |
Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447--1513) was a leading literary figure in Florence during the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli. A professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Florence, he included among his friends and colleagues leading figures such as Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, John Argyropoulos, Cristoforo Landino, and Pietro Soderini. He was one of the principal collaborators in creating the famous humanist library of King Mattyas Corvinus of Hungary. As a scholar and teacher, he devoted himself to the study of classical authors, particularly Valerius Flaccus, Livy, Persius and Juvenal; his studies of Juvenal led to bitter polemics with Poliziano. Fonzio's letters, translated here for the first time into English, are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship, and include the famous letter about the discovery in 1485 on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl. |
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1 halftone |
| Publication: |
US |
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Harvard University Press |
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