Baiae [Latin]

by Giovanni Pontano

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings of Naples. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables , given the subtitle Baiae by their first editor Pietro Summonte, experiment brilliantly with the metrical form associated principally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674021975
• ISBN13: 9780674021976
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 7.6"