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.

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's art lay in its concealment . What he concealed at the level of form , but never failed to realize at that of content , was the urge to exactitude that motivated his literary and scholarly works . They form a unity . Their ...

... 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 ...