Miscellanies Hardcover by Angelo Poliziano

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (2020-03-31)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 432 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674244962
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year

Angelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici, “il Magnifico.” The poet’s Miscellanies, including a “first century” published in 1489 and a “second century” unfinished at his death, constitute the most innovative contribution to classical philology of the Renaissance. Each chapter is a mini-essay on some lexical or textual problem which Poliziano, drawing on the riches of the Medici Library and Lorenzo’s collection of antiquities, solves with his characteristic mixture of deep learning, analytic skill, and brash criticism of his predecessors. Volume 1 presents a new Latin edition of The First Century of the Miscellanies, and these volumes together present the first translation of both collections into any modern language.

About the Author

Andrew R. Dyck is Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Alan Cottrell is Dean of Arts and Sciences at Northeast Lakeview College in San Antonio, Texas.