Stanze of Angelo Poliziano

Name: Stanze of Angelo Poliziano
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ISBN: 9780271028712

ISBN-10: 0271028718

ISBN-13: 9780271028712

Edition: 1993

Authors: David L. Quint

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Seldom have careful scholarship and book design combined to make a work as attractive as David Quint's new translation of Poliziano's Stanze per la giostra. . . . Quint's facing translation is excellent, conveying the tone and content of the poetry in prose paragraphs which reflect the ottave of the original; he manages an effect which is wholly satisfying.. . . an outstanding contribution belonging on every scholar's shelf." -Italica"In his unique translation of Angelo Poliziano's The Stanze, David Quint reveals in English for the first time the pagan love story of the ill-fated Giuliano de Medici and the bewitching Simonetta--a theme that has inspired painters and poets for generations.…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

David Quint is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University. His books include E pic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton (1993) and Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature: Versions of the Source (1983).