@article{453449,
      recid = {453449},
      author = {Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, and Gaisser, Julia Haig. and  Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, and Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano,  and Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, and Pontano, Giovanni  Gioviano, and Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, and Pontano,  Giovanni Gioviano,},
      title = {Dialogues /},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts :},
      pages = {volumes ;},
      year = {2012},
      note = {"This volume completes the I Tatti edition of Pontano's  five surviving dialogues ..."--Book jacket to volume 3.},
      abstract = {"Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503), whose academic name was  Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the  fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served  as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His  Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of  Naples which Pontano led for several decades. They provide  a vivid picture of literary life in the capital of the  Aragonese seaborne empire, based in southern Italy and the  Western Mediterranean. This first volume contains the two  earliest of Pontano's five dialogues. Charon, set in the  underworld of classical mythology, illustrates humanist  attitudes to a wide range of topics, satirizing the follies  and superstitions of humanity. Antonius, a Menippean satire  named for the founder of the Neapolitan Academy, Antonio  Beccadelli, is set in the Portico Antoniano in downtown  Naples, where the academicians commemorate and emulate  their recently-deceased leader, conversing on favorite  topics and stopping from time to time to interrogate  passersby. This volume contains a freshly-edited Latin text  of these dialogues and the first translation of them into  English."--Publisher's description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453449},
}