Harvard University Press, Date: 2009. Hard cover. Good/Good. Jacket is worn along spine and lightly stained, not affecting legibility of text. Cover is in excellent condition. Spine is shaken and cracked, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked. 2009. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674035631 9780674035638 [US]

E-270 Harvard University Press 2009 Hardcover Very Good Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2009. 480 pgs. I Tatti Renaissance Library. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His long life saw him as busy with politics, diplomacy, and intrigue as with literature and scholarship, leaving him very often on the run from rival factions-and even from hired assassins. The first Latin poet of the Renaissance to explore the expressive potential of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the traditions of Augustan literature to address personal and political concerns in his own day. The Odes, completed in the mid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity and are a major literary achievement. Their themes include war, just rule, love, exile, patronage, and friendship as well as topical subjects like the plague's grim effects on Milan. This volume is the first publication of the Latin text since the fifteenth century and the first translation into ...

Hardback. New. Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance. "The Odes", completed in the mid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity and are a major literary achievement. This title offers an English translation of this book. ISBN 0674035631 9780674035638 [GB]

Harvard University Press, Date: 2009-11-30. Hardcover. Used:Good. 2009. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674035631 9780674035638 [US]