Poems

Name: Poems
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ISBN: 9780674055063

ISBN-10: 0674055063

ISBN-13: 9780674055063

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Marullus, Charles Fantazzi

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Michael Marullus (c. 1453/4–1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar who worked in Florence and Naples. He married the beautiful and learned Alessandra Scala, daughter of the humanist Bartolomeo Scala, chancellor of Florence, and his Epigrams bring alive the circle of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’Medici. Among Marullus’ influences were ancient Greek texts such as the Homeric and Orphic hymns, the Corpus Hermeticum, the hymns of Proclus, Cleanthes, and Callimachus, and Julian the Apostate’s Hymn to the Sun. Marullus was particularly important, however, as one of the first Renaissance poets to imitate the works of Lucretius, and…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Charles Fantazzi is Thomas Harriot Distinguished Teaching Professor of Classics and Great Books at East Carolina University.