Commentary on Plotinus: Volume 4: Ennead III, Part I

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 80)

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. The I Tatti edition of his commentary on Plotinus, in 6 volumes, contains the first modern edition of the ...

Selected letters. Volume II

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 77)

Selected letters. Volume I

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 76)

Humanism and the latin classics

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 78)

Aldus Manutius (c. 1451–1515) was the most important and innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy, and science than any other publisher before or since. A companion volume to I Tatti’s ...

Angelinetum and other poems

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 73)

Giovanni Marrasio (d. 1452), a humanist poet from Noto in Sicily, spent the major part of his poetic career in Siena and Ferrara before returning to Palermo in the role of a medical doctor serving the University of Palermo. In Siena, Naples, and Palermo he ...

Italy Illuminated, Volume 2: Books V-VIII

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 75)

Biondo Flavio (1392 1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity; famously, he was the author who popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in ...

My secret Book

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 72)

Francesco Petrarca (1304 1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. "My Secret Book" ("Secretum") records the private conflict of my ...

The greek classics

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 70)

Aldus Manutius was the most innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains all of his prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, translated for the first time into English. They provide unique insight into the world of scholarly publishing in Renaissance ...

A translator's defense

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 71)

Giannozzo Manetti's Apologeticus was a defense of the study of Hebrew and of the need for a new translation. It constituted the most extensive treatise on the art of translation of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains the first complete translation of the work ...

Fiammetta; Paradise

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 69)

Ugolino Verino was a principal Latin poet in the Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici and a leading figure in the revival of ancient Latin elegy. He forged a distinctive voice in a three-book cycle of poems in honor of his lady-love, Fiametta. His Paradise is ...

Apologetic writings

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 68)

First brought to Florence by Lorenzo de Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452 1498), a Dominican friar, would ultimately play a major role in the events that convulsed the city in the 1490s and led to the overthrow of the Medici themselves. After ...

Life and early travels

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 65)

Cyriac of Ancona (1391 1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year 1435 by ...

On Dionysius the Aeropagite. Volume 2: The divine names, Part II

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 67)

In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the ...

On Dionysius the Aeropagite. Volume 1: Mystical theology and the divine names, Part I

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 66)

In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the ...

Political writings

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 64)

Coluccio Salutati (1332 1406) was chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375 1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. As such, he was among the first humanists to apply his Classical learning to political theory and ...

On the world and religious life

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 62)

n the World and Religious Life (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332–1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375–1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. The work was written ...

On married love. Eridanus

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 63)

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 Kings of Aragon and southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, Pontano produced ...

The Battle of Lepanto

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 61)

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical backgrounds who composed Latin poetry ...

Correspondence

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters are fewer than those of many of his contemporaries, since he never collected or consciously preserved them. For ...

On Methods. Volume II, Books III-IV. On Regressus

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 59)

Jacopo Zabarella's two treatises "On Methods" and "On Regressus" (1578) are among the most important Renaissance discussions of how scientific knowledge should be acquired, arranged, and transmitted. They belong to a lively debate about the order in which sciences should be taught and the ...