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Angelinetum and other poems / Giovanni Marrasio ; translated by Mary P. Chatfield.
- Title
- Angelinetum and other poems / Giovanni Marrasio ; translated by Mary P. Chatfield.
- Author
- Marrasio, Giovanni, approximately 1404-1452
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- Chatfield, Mary P.
- Description
- xx, 291 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Giovanni Marrasio (d. 1452), a humanist poet from Noto in Sicily, spent the major part of his poetic career in Siena and Ferrara before returning to Palermo in the role of a medical doctor serving the University of Palermo. In Siena, Naples, and Palermo he hovered on the edge of the courts of the Este and of Alfonso "the Magnanimous" of Aragon without ever winning the title of court poet he coveted. Marrasio was esteemed in the Renaissance as the first to revive the ancient Latin elegy, and his Angelinetum, or "Angelinas Garden," as well as his later poems (Carmina Varia) explore that genre in all its variety, from love poetry, to a description of a court masque, to political panegyric, to poetic exchanges with famous humanists of the day such as Leonardo Bruni, Maffeo Vegio, Antonio Panormita, and Enea Silvio Piccolomini. This volume contains the first translation of Marrasio's works into any modern language. -- Amazon.com.
- Series Statement
- I Tatti Renaissance library ; 73
- Uniform Title
- I Tatti Renaissance library ; 73.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bilingual books.
- Elegies (Poetry)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Translations
- Poésie élégiaque.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- English translations on rectos with Latin originals on versos.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Angelinetum -- Carmina varia -- Appendix I. Illustrative texts -- Appendix II. Marrasio's masque in Ferrara (1433).
- ISBN
- 9780674545021
- 0674545028
- LCCN
- ^^2015037320
- OCLC
- 922970881
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library