This volume offers the first English translation, an edition of the Latin text, and four studies that set this rich example of humanist Latin writing in context. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 7.
... Poliziano's list of all of the authentic philosopher's attributes, one learns something crucial, which Poliziano himself articulates as he sums up his own arguments: persons such as these are exceedingly unusual to find. They are ...
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 ...
... Poliziano , Miscell . II = Angelo Poliziano , Miscellaneorum Centuria Secunda . Edizione critica per cura di V. Branca e M. Pastore Stocchi , Firenze 1972. The introduction also in Branca , Poliziano e l'umanesimo della parola , Torino ...
This volume illuminates his close friendship with Pico della Mirandola and includes much of the correspondence about the composition and reception of his Miscellanies, a revolutionary work of philology.
... Poliziano liber et innocuus who cher- ishes there his Epicurean ideal of the good life . On the other hand , it is also the place of Lorenzo's energetic domination of nature . Poliziano enumerates his ambitious projects : an aqueduct ...