Dialogues / Giovanni Gioviano Pontano ; edited and translated by Julia Haig Gaisser.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503.; Gaisser, Julia Haig.; Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Dialogues.; Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Dialogues. English.; Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Charon.; Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Charon. English.; Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Antonius.; Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Antonius. English.
2012
PA8570.P5 D53 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Dialogues / Giovanni Gioviano Pontano ; edited and translated by Julia Haig Gaisser.
Author Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503.
ISBN 9780674054912 (v. 1)
0674054911 (v. 1)
9780674237186 (v. 2)
0674237188 (v. 2)
9780674248465 (v. 3)
0674248465 (v. 3)
Imprint Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012-
Language English
Language Note Texts in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introduction in English.
Description volumes ; 21 cm.
Call Number PA8570.P5 D53 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 871/.04
Summary "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.
Note "This volume completes the I Tatti edition of Pontano's five surviving dialogues ..."--Book jacket to volume 3.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author Gaisser, Julia Haig.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Dialogues.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Dialogues. English.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Charon.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Charon. English.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Antonius.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Antonius. English.
Holdings v.1-v.3
Series I Tatti Renaissance library ; 53.
Includes Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Dialogues.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Dialogues. English.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Charon.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Charon. English.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Antonius.
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Antonius. English.
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