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 English.

Odes (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Literature & Fiction

Filelfo, Francesco

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation, and the best way to endure and even profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language.

On Exile (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Vita Di Francesco Filelfo Da Tolentino, Volume 2 (Italian Edition)

Rosmini, Carlo De'

Biographies & Memoirs

Nabu Press

Due Orazioni in Lode Dello Illustrissimo Poeta Dante Alighieri (English and Italian Edition)

History

Satiras de Filelfo: Biblioteca Colombina, 7-1-13 (Serie "Ediciones, textos y documentos") (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Ediciones Alfar

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