900 Conclusions

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 100 )

A groundbreaking edition of controversial theses proposed by the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, had ambitions in line with his talents, especially in philosophical theology. His boldest venture urged Christians ...

Latin pastoral poetry

A definitive edition of Renaissance pastoral poems by two master poets, including works that inspired Raphael and Shakespeare. Andrea Navagero (1483-1529) was among the principal poets of the Venetian Renaissance. Famous as the editor of classical texts for Aldus Manutius's celebrated press, Navagero also ...

Dinner pieces. Volume I

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 97)

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the ...

Dinner pieces. Volume 2

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 98)

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man."Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the ...

On leaders and tyrants

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 99)

The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership. Poggio Bracciolini was a prominent scholar-official of the early Renaissance and a leading representative of Florentine humanism. He was employed as a secretary to seven popes and ended ...

Biographical and Autobiographical Writings

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 96)

A fresh English translation of five Alberti works that illuminate new aspects of the literary aims and development of the first "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a ...

Portraits of Learned Men

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 95)

The most complete translation available of these brief biographies of great European figures, written by one of the leading historians of the sixteenth century. Portraits of Learned Men provides a fascinating synopsis of the contours, mentality, and trajectory of humanistic culture in Italy and Europe ...

Eclogues; Garden of the Hesperides

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 94)

A renowned Renaissance poet's homage to Naples makes its debut in modern English translation. Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the ...

Life of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola / Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola; Oration / Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 93)

The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico, his nephew, is ...

Dialogues. Volume 2: Actius

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 91)

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) served five kings of Naples as a courtier, official, and diplomat, and earned even greater fame as a scholar, prose author, and poet. His Dialogues reflect his diverse interests in religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as in everyday life in ...

Dialogues. Volume 3: Aegidius and Asinus

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 92)

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) served five kings of Naples as a courtier, official, and diplomat, and earned even greater fame as a scholar, prose author, and poet. His Dialogues reflect his diverse interests in religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as in everyday life in ...

Lives of the milanese tyrants

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 88)

Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milan-the powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforza-written by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the ...

The virtues and vices of speech

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 87)

Giovanni Pontano, best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The De sermone, translated into English here for the first time as The Virtues and Vices of Speech, provides a moral anatomy of aspects of speech such as truthfulness ...

On human worth and excellence

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 85)

Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and humanist scholar of the early Renaissance who mastered ancient Greek and Hebrew as well as classical Latin. In this treatise, dedicated to Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples, Manetti addresses a question central to the ...

greek and latin poetry

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 86)

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes epigrams, elegies, and verse epistles, as well as translations of Hellenistic Greek ...

Commentaries. Volume 3: Books V-VII

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 83)

The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes ...

Latin poetry

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 84)

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), one of Italy's greatest poets, was a leading figure of sixteenth-century Italian humanism. After some years working in the household of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, to whom he dedicated his dazzling romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516), Ariosto settled in Ferrara under ...

Commentary on Plotinus: Volume 5: Ennead III, Part 2 and Ennead IV

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 82)

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his finest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin translation of the complete works of Plotinus (204-270 CE ...

Genealogy of the pagan gods: Volume 2. Books VI-X

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 81)

Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry. It is both the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries ...

Against the Jews and the gentiles: Books I-IV

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 79)

Giannozzo Manetti's apologia for Christianity Against the Jews and the Gentiles redefines religion as true piety and relates the historical development of the pagan and Jewish religions to the life of Jesus. This volume includes the first critical edition of Books I IV and ...