harvard university press the i tatti renaissance library

2013

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CORRESPONDENCELORENZO VALLA

Translated by Brendan Cook

Lorenzo Valla (1406–1457) was the leading philologistof the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as aphilosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latinletters are fewer than those of many of his contempo-raries, since he never collected or consciously preservedthem. For that reason they afford a direct and unguard-ed window into the working life of the most passionate,difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists. Theyshow him as a writer who continually worked andreworked his major contributions to dialectic andphilology, notably his masterpiece on the Elegances of theLatin Language, a central text of the Renaissance. Moreplentiful are the letters of others tohim, which place him at the center ofa humanist network that extendedfrom Venice to Naples. These letters,including one previously unpublished,are now edited for the first time along-side Valla’s own correspondence. Thetranslation is the first into any modernlanguage.

ITRL 60 2013 520 pp. Cloth $29.95 • £19.95ISBN 978-0-674-72467-9

LATIN POETRYGIROLAMO FRACASTORO

Translated by James Gardner

One of the great medical authoritiesof the early sixteenth century, Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553) was also a prominent Neo-Latin poet. This volume includes his famousdidactic poem Syphilis in three books, which gave the name to the disease and contains the first poeticaldescription of Columbus’s discovery of America. Alsoincluded are a short biblical epic, the Joseph, and theCarmina, a collection of shorter poetry in variousmeters. This volume presents an updated edition of all the Latin texts, two previously unpublished shortpoems, and the first complete translation into English of Fracastoro’s Latin poetry.

ITRL 57 2013 560 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-07271-8

ON METHODSVolume 1: Books I–II

Volume 2: Books III–IV. On Regressus

JACOPO ZABARELLA

Edited and translated by John P. McCaskey

Jacopo Zabarella’s two treatises On Methods and OnRegressus (1578) are among the most importantRenaissance discussions of how scientific knowledgeshould be acquired, arranged, and transmitted. Theybelong to a lively debate about the order in which sci-ences should be taught and the method to be followedin scientific demonstration that roiled the LateRenaissance world for decades. The influence of theseworks on Galileo’s scientific method and Descartes’s

famous Discourse on Method (1637)has long been debated. They are heretranslated into English for the firsttime, along with a new Latin textbased on the corrected 1586 edition.

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NOTABLE MEN ANDWOMEN OF OUR TIMEPAOLO GIOVIO

Edited and translated by Kenneth Gouwens

Written in the aftermath of the cata-strophic sack of Rome in 1527, thehistorian Paolo Giovio’s dialogue pro-

vides an informed perspective on the event from an inti-mate friend of Pope Clement VII. The work is alsoremarkable for its discussions of literary style and themuch-debated question whether the vernacular couldrival or surpass Latin as a vehicle for literary expression.It discusses authors whom Giovio knew personally, suchas Ariosto, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Sannazaro, andVittoria Colonna. The dialogues also contain an exten-sive survey of Italian noblewomen, shedding new lighton their careers and cultural achievements. This volumecontains a fresh edition of the Latin text and the firsttranslation of the work into English.

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ON EXILEFRANCESCO FILELFO

Edited by Jeroen De Keyser

Translated by W. Scott Blanchard

Francesco Filelfo’s philosophical dialogue On Exile(ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentinenoblemen and humanists, driven from their city byCosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings imposedby exile such as poverty and loss of reputation, and thebest way to endure and even profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latintext and the first complete translation into any modernlanguage.

ITRL 55 2013 512 pp. Cloth $29.95 • £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06636-6

POEMSMICHAEL MARULLUS

Translated by Charles Fantazzi

Michael Marullus (ca. 1453/4–1500),born in Greece, began life as a merce-nary soldier but became a prominentNeo-Latin poet and scholar whoworked in Florence and Naples.Among Marullus’s influences wereancient Greek texts such as theHomeric and Orphic hymns; theCorpus Hermeticum; the hymns ofProclus, Cleanthes, and Callimachus;and Julian the Apostate’s Hymn to theSun. Marullus was particularly impor-tant, however, as one of the firstRenaissance poets to imitate the works of Lucretius,and one witness reported that, after his death by drown-ing, a copy of the Roman poet’s works was found in hissaddlebag. Later poets imitated him in vernacular lovepoetry, especially Ronsard; he even appears as a shad-owy figure in the pages of George Eliot’s Romola, wherehe is depicted as a confirmed pagan. This edition con-tains Marullus’s complete Latin poetry. All of theseworks appear in English translation for the first time.

ITRL 54 2012 280 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05506-3

DIALOGUESVolume 1: Charon and Antonius

GIOVANNI GIOVIANO PONTANO

Edited and translated by Julia Haig Gaisser

Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), whose academic namewas Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of thefifteenth century as well as a leading statesman whoserved as prime minister to the Aragonese kings ofNaples. His Dialogues are our best source for thehumanist academy of Naples which Pontano led forseveral decades. They provide a vivid picture of literarylife in the capital of the Aragonese seaborne empire,based in southern Italy and the western Mediterranean.This first volume contains the two earliest of Pontano’sfive dialogues. This volume contains a freshly edited

Latin text of these dialogues and thefirst translation of them into English.


DIALECTICALDISPUTATIONSVolume 1: Book I

Volume 2: Books II–III

LORENZO VALLA

Edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver and Lodi Nauta

Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) ranksamong the greatest scholars andthinkers of the Renaissance. DialecticalDisputations, translated here for the

first time into any modern language, is his principal con-tribution to the philosophy of language and logic. Withthis savage attack on the scholastic tradition ofAristotelian logic, Valla aimed to supersede it with anew logic based on the actual historical usage of classicalLatin and on a commonsense approach to semanticsand argument. Valla’s reformed dialectic became a mile-stone in the development of humanist logic and con-tains startling anticipations of modern theories ofsemantics and language.

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MODERN POETSLILIO GREGORIO GIRALDI

Edited and translated by John N. Grant

Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552)received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. Giraldi wasthe author of many works on literary history, mythology,and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dia-logues, translated here into English for the first time.Modeled on Cicero’s Brutus, the work discusses hun-dreds of contemporary Neo-Latin and vernacular poets,giving a panoramic view of European poetry in the latefifteenth and early sixteenth century from Great Britainto Greece, but concentrating above all on Italy.


LETTERS TO FRIENDSBARTOLOMEO FONZIO

Edited by Alessandro Daneloni Translated by Martin Davies

Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447–1513) was aleading literary figure in Florence dur-ing the time of Lorenzo de’ Mediciand Machiavelli. A professor of poetryand rhetoric at the University ofFlorence, he included among hisfriends and colleagues leading figuressuch as Marsilio Ficino, AngeloPoliziano, John Argyropoulos,Cristoforo Landino, and PietroSoderini. He was one of the principalcollaborators in creating the famous humanist library ofKing Mattyas Corvinus of Hungary. Fonzio’s letters,translated here for the first time into English, are a win-dow into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship, and include the famous letter aboutthe discovery in 1485 on the Via Appia of the perfectlypreserved body of a Roman girl.

ITRL 47 2011 1 halftone 256 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05836-1

GENEALOGY OF THE PAGAN GODSVolume 1: Books I–V

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Edited and translated by Jon Solomon

Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is anambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal isto plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as tocreate a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythol-ogy. The work also contains a famous defense of thevalue of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christianworld.

Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths,the Genealogy incorporates hundreds of excerpts from

and comments on ancient poetry, illus-trative of the new spirit of philologicaland cultural inquiry emerging in theearly Renaissance. It is at once themost ambitious work of literary schol-arship of the early Renaissance and ademonstration to contemporaries ofthe moral and cultural value of study-ing ancient poetry. This is the first vol-ume of a projected three-volume set ofBoccaccio’s complete Genealogy.

ITRL 46 2011 1 halftone, 1 line illus. 928 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05710-4

HUMANISTTRAGEDIESTranslated by Gary R. Grund

Humanist Tragedies, like its companion volume HumanistComedies, contains a representative sampling of Latindrama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. Thefive tragedies included in this volume—AlbertinoMussato’s Ecerinis (1314), Antonio Loschi’s Achilles (ca.1387), Gregorio Corraro’s Procne (ca. 1429), LeonardoDati’s Hiempsal (ca. 1442), and Marcellino Verardi’sFerdinand Preserved (1493)—were nourished by apotent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-humanistsources. Humanist tragedy testifies to the momentouschanges in literary and cultural conventions thatoccurred during the Renaissance.


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SACRED PAINTING. MUSEUMFEDERICO BORROMEO

Edited and translated by Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr.Introduction and notes by Pamela M. Jones

In De pictura sacra (Sacred Painting, 1624), FedericoBorromeo (1564–1631), Cardinal-Archbishop of Milanand founder of the Ambrosiana library, art collection,and academy, laid out the rules that artists should followwhen creating religious art. He touched on dozens oficonographical issues and in so doing drew on his deepknowledge not only of Church fathers, councils, andscripture but also of classical art and literature. InMusaeum (1625), Borromeo showed a more personal sideby walking the reader through the Ambrosiana and com-menting on specific works in his collection. This volumeoffers, for the first time, translations ofthe treatises directly into English aswell as freshly edited Latin texts, anintroduction, extensive notes, and anappendix on the Academy of Designthat was established in conjunctionwith the museum.

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BOOK ON MUSICFLORENTIUS DE FAXOLIS

Edited and translated by Bonnie J. Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens

Between 1485 and 1492 CardinalAscanio Sforza was the recipient of amusic treatise composed for him by“Florentius Musicus” (Florentius de Faxolis), who hadserved him in Naples and Rome. Now in Milan, therichly illuminated small parchment codex bears witnessto the musical interests of the cardinal, himself an avidsinger. Florentius, whose treatise, found in no othersource, is edited here for the first time, evidently took thecardinal’s predilections into account, for the Book onMusic is unusual for its emphasis on “the praises, power,utility, necessity, and effect of music”: he devotes far morespace to citations from classical and medieval authorsthan is the norm, and his elevated style shows that heaspires to appear as a humanist and not merely a techni-cian. The editors, a Renaissance musicologist (BonnieBlackburn) and a classical scholar (Leofranc Holford-Strevens), have combined their disciplines to pay closeattention both to Florentius’s text and to his teachings.

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THE HERMAPHRODITEANTONIO BECCADELLI

Edited and translated by Holt Parker

Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471), known as Panormitafrom his native town of Palermo, was appointed courtpoet to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti (1429), wascrowned poet laureate by Emperor Sigismund (1432),and ended his days as panegyrist to King Alfonso V ofAragon and Naples, where he founded the first of theRenaissance Academies. The Hermaphrodite, his first work(1425–1426), dedicated to Cosimo de’ Medici, won himpraise and condemnation. Beccadelli was a pioneer inrevitalizing the Latin epigram for its powers of abuse andlouche eroticism. Its open celebration of vice, particularlysodomy, earned it public burnings, threats of excommu-

nication, banishment to the closed sec-tions of libraries, and a devoted follow-ing. Likened to a “precious jewel in adunghill,” The Hermaphrodite combinedthe comic realism of Italian popularverse with the language of Martial toexplore the underside of the earlyRenaissance.


ODESFRANCESCO FILELFO

Edited and translated by Diana Robin

Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), one ofthe great scholar-poets of the Italian

Renaissance, was the principal humanist working inLombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento andserved 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 scholar-ship, leaving him very often on the run from rival fac-tions—and even from hired assassins. The first Latinpoet of the Renaissance to explore the expressive poten-tial of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the traditions of Augustan literature to address personal and politicalconcerns in his own day. The Odes, completed in themid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle ofHoratian odes since classical antiquity and are a majorliterary achievement. This volume is the first publicationof the Latin text since the fifteenth century and the firsttranslation into English.


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REPUBLICS AND KINGDOMS COMPAREDAURELIO LIPPO BRANDOLINI

Edited and translated by James Hankins

Aurelio Lippo Brandolini’s Republics and KingdomsCompared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King MattiasCorvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts adebate between the king himself and a Florentine mer-chant at his court on the relative merits of republics andkingdoms. In effect a searing critique of Florentine civichumanism, the work discusses such issues as free tradeand the morality of commerce, the inequalities of wealthtypical of republics, the nature of freedom and justice,the reasons for the rise and fall ofempires, the causes of political corrup-tion, and the conditions necessary forthe flourishing of arts, letters, and cul-ture generally. This is the first criticaledition and the first translation intoany language.


LATIN POETRYJACOPO SANNAZARO

Translated by Michael C. J. Putnam

Jacopo Sannazaro (1456–1530), considered by some authorities thefinest Neo-Latin poet of the ItalianRenaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Accademia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having written, in Italian, the first pastoral romance inEuropean literature, the Arcadia (1504). But after thisearly work, Sannazaro devoted himself entirely to Latinpoetry modeled on his beloved Vergil. In addition to hisepic The Virgin Birth (1526), which earned him the titleof “the Christian Vergil,” he also composed PiscatoryEclogues, an innovative adaption of the eclogue form, as well as elegies, epigrams, and a number of shorterworks. This volume contains the first complete Englishtranslation of all of Sannazaro’s poetry in Latin, accom-panied by extensive notes.


CHRISTIADMARCO GIROLAMO VIDA

Translated by James Gardner

Marco Girolamo Vida (1485–1566), humanist and bish-op, came to prominence as a Latin poet in the Rome ofLeo X and Clement VII. It was Leo who commissionedhis famous epic, the Christiad, a retelling of the life ofChrist in the style of Vergil, which was eventually pub-lished in 1535. It was by far the most popular Christianepic of the Renaissance, appearing in almost forty edi-tions before 1600. It was translated into many languages,including Croatian and Armenian, and was widely imi-tated by vernacular poets such as Abraham Cowley andJohn Milton. This translation, accompanied by extensivenotes, is based on a new edition of the Latin text.


POEMSCRISTOFORO LANDINO

Translated by Mary P. Chatfield

Cristoforo Landino (1424–1498), one of the great scholar-poets of theRenaissance, is best known today forhis Platonizing commentaries onDante and Vergil. His most substan-tial work of poetry was his ThreeBooks on Xandra, written while still a young man. They consist primarilyof love poetry in Latin directed to hislady-love Alessandra, but they also

chronicle his life, friendships, literary studies, and thepatronage of his work by Piero de’ Medici. Inspiredequally by the ancient Roman love-elegy and byPetrarch’s Canzoniere, the poems illustrate the minglingof classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of theage of Lorenzo de’ Medici. Also included in this volumeis the Carmina Varia, a collection whose centerpiece is a group of elegies directed to the Venetian humanistBernardo Bembo. This edition contains the first translation of both works into English.








COMMENTARIES ON PLATOVolume 2: Parmenides, Parts I and IIMARSILIO FICINO

Edited and translated by Maude Vanhaelen

Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for theRenaissance revival of Plato. Ficino’s commentaries on Plato remained the standard guide to the Greekphilosopher’s works for centuries. Maude Vanhaelen’snew translation of Ficino’s vast commentary on theParmenidesmakes this monument of Renaissance metaphysics accessible to the modern student of philos-ophy. The volume contains the first critical edition ofthe Latin text, an ample introduction, and extensivenotes.

Vol. 1: Phaedrus and IonEdited and translated by Michael J. B. AllenITRL 34 2008 336 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03119-7Vol. 2: Parmenides, Part IEdited and translated by Maude VanhaelenITRL 51 2012 352 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06471-3Vol. 2: Parmenides, Part IIEdited and translated by Maude VanhaelenITRL 52 2012 416 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06472-0

WRITINGS ONCHURCH AND REFORMNICHOLAS OF CUSA

Translated by Thomas M. Izbicki

Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), widely considered the most important original philosopher of theRenaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A polymath who studied canon law and became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, he wrote principally on speculative theology, philoso-phy, and Church politics. This volume makes most of Nicholas’s other writings on Church and reform available in English for the first time, including legaltracts arguing the case of Pope Eugenius IV againstthe conciliarists, theological examinations of thenature of the Church, and writings on reform of the papacy and curia.


ESSAYS AND DIALOGUESBARTOLOMEO SCALA

Translated by Renée Neu WatkinsIntroduction by Alison Brown

From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430–1497)trained in the law and rose to prominence serving as sec-retary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of theGuelf party before becoming first chancellor of Florence.This collection of works from throughout his careershows his acquaintance with recently rediscovered ancientwriters as well as the influence of fellow humanists suchas Marsilio Ficino, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. This volumepresents fresh translations by Renée Neu Watkins of fiveof the texts based on Latin editions by Alison Brown,

who also contributes an introductionto Scala’s life and works.


LIVES OF THE POPESVolume 1: Antiquity

BARTOLOMEO PLATINA

Edited and translated by Anthony F. D’Elia

Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481),historian, political theorist, andauthor of a best-selling cookbook,began life as a mercenary soldier andended it as the head of the VaticanLibrary. A papal official under thehumanist Pope Pius II, he was a

member of the humanist academies of CardinalBessarion and Pomponio Leto, and was twice impris-oned for conspiring against Pope Paul II. Returning tofavor under Pope Sixtus IV, he composed his mostfamous work, a biographical compendium of theRoman popes from St. Peter down to his own time.The work critically synthesized a wide range of sourcesand became the standard reference work on papal his-tory for early modern Europe. This edition containsthe first complete translation into English and animproved Latin text.



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HISTORY OF VENICEPIETRO BEMBO

Edited and translated by Robert W. Ulery, Jr.

Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was themost celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widelyadmired for his writings in Italian as well. Much ofBembo’s work is devoted to the external affairs of Venice,principally conflicts with other European states and withthe Turks in the East. These volumes make it availablefor the first time in English translation.

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See also Lyric Poetry. Etnaon page 10.

CICERONIANCONTROVERSIESEdited by JoAnn DellaNevaEnglish translation by Brian Duvick

“Believe it or not, the central issuesof the book still make a worthyclaim upon our attention. And thisnew bilingual edition, edited byJoAnn DellaNeva and translated by Brian Duvick,brings before the public for the first time in one bluevolume, as beautifully printed as its 20 predecessorsin this series, the most crucial documents in a literarydebate that once engaged the finest minds in Europe.” —JAMES GARDNER, NEW YORK SUN


BALDOTEOFILO FOLENGO

Translated by Ann E. Mullaney

Teofilo Folengo (1491–1544) was a native of Mantua and a member of the Benedictine order, later to become a runaway monk and satirist. This edition provides thefirst English translation of this hilarious send-up of theancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance traditions.

“A very accessible prose translation of Folengo’s lastrevised edition…Baldo is not for the faint of heart ordelicate of nose, and at times one needs an iron gut todigest it. But keep Folengo’s injunction in mind—toat all times laugh with and not at its author—and

welcome to the world of macaroni.Eat your fill, hold your sides; wordswill never taste the same again.”—OLIVIER BURCKHARDT,

THE GUARDIAN

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ON THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINELORENZO VALLA

Translated by G.W. Bowersock

Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) was the most important theorist of thehumanist movement. He wrote amajor work on Latin style, OnElegance in the Latin Language, which

became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reformof Latin across Europe, and Dialectical Disputations, awide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. His mostfamous work is On the Donation of Constantine, an ora-tion in which Valla uses new philological methods toattack the authenticity of the most important documentjustifying the papacy’s claims to temporal rule. Itappears here in a new translation with an introductionand notes by G. W. Bowersock, based on the criticaltext of Wolfram Setz (1976). This volume also includesa text and translation of the Constitutum Constantini,commonly known as the Donation of Constantine.


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BAIAEGIOVANNI GIOVIANO PONTANO

Translated by Rodney G. Dennis

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429–1503) was animportant humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy.He was also the most innovative and versatile Latinpoet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books ofHendecasyllables, given the subtitle Baiae, are the elegantoffspring of Pontano’s leisure, written to celebrate love,good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures oflife to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bayof Naples.

“The I Tatti volumes with their royal blue covers, spacious layout of both Latin text and facing transla-tion, and discreet but detailed annotation, are a biblio-phile’s delight. Pontano, a discrimi-nating bookman, would have beenpleased.” —ERIC ORMSBY, NEW YORK SUN


LETTERSVolume 1: Books I–IV

ANGELO POLIZIANO

Edited and translated by Shane Butler

Angelo Poliziano (1454–1494) wasone of the great scholar-poets of theItalian Renaissance and the leading lit-erary figure of the age of Lorenzo de’Medici. His correspondence gives usan intimate glimpse of the revival of classical literature from the pen of a man at the very center ofthe Renaissance movement. This volume illuminates his close friendship with the philosopher Pico dellaMirandola and includes much of the correspondenceconcerning the composition and reception of hisMiscellanies, a revolutionary work of philology. It alsoincludes his famous and moving letter on the death ofLorenzo de’ Medici.

“Any new edition of such an important work is a land-mark, for which all students of literary and intellectuallife in fifteenth century Florence will be grateful.”—NIGEL WILSON, EIKASMOS


ITALY ILLUMINATEDVolume 1: Books I–IV

BIONDO FLAVIO

Edited and translated by Jeffrey A. White

Biondo Flavio (1392–1463), humanist and historian,was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of theRenaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinaryprogram of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient Romanempire. The Italia Illustrata (1453), which appears herefor the first time in English, is a topographical workdescribing Italy region by region. Its aim is to explorethe Roman roots of the Renaissance world. As such, it is the quintessential work of Renaissance antiquarian-

ism. This is the first edition of theLatin text since 1559.

“This is an extremely valuable editionand translation that serious studentsof the history of classical scholarship,the Renaissance, and Italian topogra-phy will want to have in theirlibraries.”—HARRY B. EVANS,

NEW ENGLAND CLASSICAL JOURNAL


HUMANIST COMEDIESEdited and translated by Gary R. Grund

The five comedies included in thisvolume present a characteristic sampling of comic formas it was interpreted by some of the most importantLatin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier PaoloVergerio’s Paulus, Philodoxeos fabula by Leon BattistaAlberti, Philogenia et Epiphebus by Ugolino Pisani,Chrysis by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), and Tommaso Medio’s Epirota span nearly the entire period and are a valuable gauge of its chang-ing literary tastes, tastes nourished by the ancient comicdrama of Plautus and Terence.

“Readers interested in the Renaissance, the receptionof Roman comedy, or the development of humanistLatin will find these plays fascinating.” —ANNE MAHONEY,

NEW ENGLAND CLASSICAL JOURNAL


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LYRIC POETRY. ETNAPIETRO BEMBO

Edited and translated by Mary P. ChatfieldTranslated by Betty Radice

Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), scholar and critic, was oneof the most admired Latinists of his day. After someyears at the court of Urbino, where he exchangedPlatonic love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, he moved toRome and served as secretary to Leo X. Later he retiredto Padua and a life of letters. He was made a cardinal in1539. The poems in this volume come from all periodsof his life and reflect both his erudition and his wide-ranging friendships. This volume also includes the prosedialogue Etna, an account of Bembo’s ascent of Mt.Etna in Sicily during his student days, translated byBetty Radice.

“Even in translation, Bembo has avoice of his own. It sounds throughthe English in his thoughts, moods,and modes; he can be lyrical, didactic,epigrammatic, and epic.”—MARCIA KARP,

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SHORT EPICSMAFFEO VEGIO

Edited and translated by Michael C. J. Putnam with James Hankins

Maffeo Vegio (1407–1458) was the outstanding Latinpoet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This vol-ume includes Book XIII of Vergil’s Aeneid, Vegio’sfamous continuation of the Roman epic, which wasextremely popular in the later Renaissance, printedmany times and translated into every major Europeanlanguage (and even into Scottish). It also contains threeother epic works: Astyanax, based on an episode in theIliad; The Golden Fleece (Vellus Aureum); and Antonias, ashort epic based on the life of Saint Anthony of Egypt.This volume contains the first modern editions of theLatin text of Antonias and Astyanax.

“Putnam’s agile translation is a pleasure to read and a revelation to study.” —WILLIAM J. KENNEDY, RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY


SILVAEANGELO POLIZIANO

Edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi

Angelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the greatscholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de’ Medici “il Magnifico” inFlorence. His “Silvae” are poetical introductions to hiscourses in literature at the University of Florence, writ-ten in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but alsoafford unique insight into the poetical credo of a bril-liant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well as of his contemporarieswriting in Italian.

“At once expansive, elegiac, and exact, Fantazzi’s translation brings Poliziano to uswith affecting grace.” —WILLIAM J. KENNEDY,

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COMMENTARIESPIUS II

Edited by Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta

Pius II (1405–1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in asmall town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat.Originally an opponent of the papacy,

he eventually reconciled himself with the RomanChurch and became a priest, then a cardinal. Finally hewas elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pon-tificate to organizing a pan-European crusade againstthe Ottoman Empire. Pius’s Commentaries, the onlyautobiography ever written by a pope, was composed inelegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar andCicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based onthe last manuscript written in Pius’s lifetime and anupdated and corrected version of the 1937 translation.

Vol. 1: Books I–II ITRL 12 2004 2 maps 448 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01164-9Vol. 2: Books III–IV ITRL 29 2007 1 map 416 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02489-2

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INVECTIVESFRANCESCO PETRARCA

Edited and translated by David Marsh

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Romanlanguage and literature. His four Invectives were intend-ed to revive the eloquence of the great Roman oratorCicero. The Invectives are directed against the culturalidols of the Middle Ages—against scholastic philoso-phy and medicine and the dominance of French culturein general. They defend the value of literary cultureagainst obscurantism and provide a clear statement of the values of Renaissance humanism. This volumeprovides a new critical edition of the Latin text of On His Own Ignorance based on thetwo autograph copies, and the firstEnglish translation of three of thefour invectives.

“Impeccably edited and translated byDavid Marsh.” —ANTHONY T. GRAFTON,

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LATER TRAVELSCYRIAC OF ANCONA

Edited and translated by Edward W. Bodnar with Clive Foss

Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de’Pizzecolli, 1391–1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancientworld in person and for that reason is sometimesregarded as the father of classical archaeology. Cyriac’saccounts of his travels, with their commentary reflectinghis wide-ranging antiquarian, political, religious, andcommercial interests, provide a fascinating record of theencounter of the Renaissance world with the legacy ofclassical antiquity. The Latin texts assembled for thisedition have been newly edited, and most of themappear here for the first time in English.

ITRL 10 2004 10 halftones, 1 map 496 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00758-1

BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGSGIANNOZZO MANETTI

Edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl

The Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors fromPetrarch to Machiavelli. The orator, diplomat, andstatesman Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459), an expertin Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin, was among theleading humanist biographers of the Renaissance. Thiscollection brings together his famous biographies ofDante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establishthe canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the stan-

dard biographical sources for thosephilosophers throughout the earlymodern period.


MOMUSLEON BATTISTA ALBERTI

English translation by Sarah KnightLatin text edited by Virginia Brown andSarah Knight

Momus is the most ambitious literarycreation of Leon Battista Alberti, thefamous humanist-scientist-artist and“universal man” of the ItalianRenaissance. In this dark comedy,written around 1450, Alberti charts

the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, theunscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. This editionprovides a new Latin text, the first to be based on thetwo earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti him-self, and includes the first full translation into English.

“The sparkling translation, by Sarah Knight, frequent-ly substitutes English colloquialisms for a more formaldiction…The facing page’s original text allows readersequipped with various levels of Latin—rusty or merelylightly oxidized—to follow the great success of thetranslator, who has produced a version at once faithfuland spirited.” —JAMES WOOD, NEW REPUBLIC


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ON DISCOVERYPOLYDORE VERGIL

Edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver

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HUMANIST EDUCATIONALTREATISESEdited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf

“A splendid collection…Translated with great precision by CraigKallendorf, [this volume] lets uswatch some of the most influentialhumanist teachers at work.”—ANTHONY T. GRAFTON,

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HISTORY OF THE FLORENTINE PEOPLELEONARDO BRUNI

Edited and translated by James Hankinswith D. J. W. Bradley (Vol. 3)

“This volume, and the entire series ofwhich it forms only a part, is a crucialcontribution to the prosperity ofRenaissance studies today…Elegantly translated and modestly priced, Hankins’ volume should go a long way to restoring Bruni to the historiographical prominence that he rightly enjoyed in his own time.” —MARK JURDJEVIC,

SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL

Vol. 1: Books I–IV ITRL 3 2001 3 maps 544 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00506-8Vol. 2: Books V–VIII ITRL 16 2004 2 maps 608 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01066-6Vol. 3: Books IX–XII. Memoirs ITRL 27 2007 2 maps 512 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01682-8

PLATONIC THEOLOGYMARSILIO FICINO

English translation by Michael J. B. AllenLatin text edited by James Hankins with William Bowen

“No doubt this edition will stimulate further studies on Ficino’s Platonic Theology, which will in turn enlighten significant aspects of Ficino’sthought, identify new sources and provide a compre-hensive exegesis of this fundamental text.” —MAUDE VANHAELEN,

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Vol. 1: Books I–IV ITRL 2 2001 368 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00345-3Vol. 2: Books V–VIII ITRL 4 2002 416 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00764-2Vol. 3: Books IX–XI

ITRL 7 2003 384 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01065-9Vol. 4: Books XII–XIV ITRL 13 2004 384 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01482-4Vol. 5: Books XV–XVI ITRL 17 2005 368 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01719-1Vol. 6: Books XVII–XVIII ITRL 23 2006 432 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01986-7

FAMOUS WOMENGIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Edited and translated by Virginia Brown

“A monument of classical scholarshipfor its time, [Famous Women] con-

tains the biographies of women renowned for valor inwarfare and fearlessness in the face of death, for writ-ing and the arts, for political rulership, and for the par-ticularly womanly virtues of marital chastity and devo-tion to husbands living and dead…[This book] standsat a cusp in cultural history between medieval attitudes and the new mental universe of the Renaissance.” —DAVID QUINT, NEW REPUBLIC


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THE FRUIT OF LIBERTYPolitical Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550

NICHOLAS SCOTT BAKER

“The Fruit of Liberty provocatively reinterprets the significance of Florentine politicalculture in the late Renaissance. By examining the apparently sharp contrast betweenrepublican and ducal Florence, Baker reveals that the Florentine experience helps toexplain the triumph of post-Renaissance absolutism just as much as it contributed tothe persistence of republican language and traditions.”—MARK JURDJEVIC, GLENDON COLLEGE, YORK UNIVERSITY

“In a lucid and lively way, Baker has managed to reveal untold parts of what wouldseem to be a well-worn story.”—SHARON STROCCHIA, EMORY UNIVERSITY

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ORPHEUS IN THE MARKETPLACEJacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence

TIM CARTER AND RICHARD A. GOLDTHWAITE

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561–1633) is known as the composer of the firstoperas—they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sangthe role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account booksbelonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri’s professional andpersonal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist,have done much more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes theremarkable value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period.

This record of Peri’s wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enablesthe first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seven-teenth centuries, and also opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe’s princi-pal centers of capitalism. These records allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and com-poser that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, pro-viding a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 2013 18 halftones, 19 line illus., 3 maps 470 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-72464-8

REVIVING THE ETERNAL CITYRome and the Papal Court, 1420–1447

ELIZABETH MCCAHILL

“In this masterful, original, and fluidly-written study of the intellectual and cultural milieu of the early RomanRenaissance, Elizabeth McCahill provides a rich and nuanced context for some of the most important humanistand artistic projects of the age.”—BRIAN CURRAN, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

“Meticulous and riveting, Reviving the Eternal City offers a multifaceted history of the Roman Curia under MartinV and Eugenius IV. Through incisive readings of sources as diverse as a vintner’s diary, the letters of established(and struggling) humanists, papal bulls and Filarete’s bronze doors, McCahill proves that Rome’s renewal beganlong before the first ‘Renaissance’ pope donned the tiara.”—SARAH ROSS, BOSTON COLLEGE

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CULTURES OF CHARITYWomen, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance ItalyNICHOLAS TERPSTRAI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2012 3 halftones, 13 line illus., 4 tables 380 pp.Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06709-7

THE DUKE AND THE STARSAstrology and Politics in Renaissance MilanMONICA AZZOLINII Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2012 17 halftones, 2 line illus., 3 tables 360 pp.Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06663-2

PRINTING A MEDITERRANEAN WORLDFlorence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of GeographySEAN ROBERTSI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2012 25 halftones 274 pp.Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06648-9

WRITING HISTORY IN RENAISSANCE ITALYLeonardo Bruni and the Uses of the PastGARY IANZITII Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2012 420 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06152-1

VENICE’S MOST LOYAL CITYCivic Identity in Renaissance BresciaSTEPHEN D. BOWDI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2010 7 halftones 374 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05120-1

THE RETURN OF LUCRETIUS TO RENAISSANCE FLORENCEALISON BROWNI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2010 160 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05032-7

IN DEFENSE OF COMMON SENSELorenzo Valla’s Humanist Critique of Scholastic PhilosophyLODI NAUTAI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2009 2 tables 416 pp. Cloth $42.00 / £31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03269-9

THE BERNARD BERENSON LECTURES ON THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DELIVERED AT VILLA I TATTI

THE EARLY RENAISSANCE AND VERNACULAR CULTURECHARLES DEMPSEYThe Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti2011 45 halftones 294 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04952-9

GIOTTO AND HIS PUBLICSThree Paradigms of PatronageJULIAN GARDNERThe Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti2011 13 color illus., 3 maps 256 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05080-8

FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, AND TRUST IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCEDALE KENTThe Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti2009 40 halftones 288 pp. Cloth $33.00 / £24.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03137-1

THE CULTURE WARS OF THE LATE RENAISSANCESkeptics, Libertines, and OperaEDWARD MUIRThe Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti2007 11 halftones 192 pp. Cloth $27.50 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02481-6

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