Fiammetta. Paradise (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780674088627)

Ugolino Verino (1438-1516) was among the principal Latin poets in the Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici. A student of Cristoforo Landino, whose youthful love poems Verino imitated, Verino was a leading figure in the Renaissance revival of ancient Latin elegy. He blended Propertius, Ovid's Amores, and elements of Petrarch's lyric style to forge a distinctive poetic voice in a three-book cycle of poems in honor of his lady-love, Fiammetta. His Paradise, by contrast, is a vision-poem indebted to Vergil's Aeneid, Dante, and Cicero's Dream of Scipio, in which Ugolino is taken on a tour of Heaven and the afterlife by the recently deceased Cosimo de'Medici.

Author: Ugolino Verino
ISBN-10: 067408862X
ISBN-13: 9780674088627
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2016
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d