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Baiae - Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, and Dennis, Rodney G (Translated by)
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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 ...

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Baiae 2006, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674021976

Hardcover