Publisher's notice

Information about this book was provided by its publisher in 2011. The description given is not an independent review. All details are subject to change, especially pricing. Please use the contact links at the top of this page to notify any innacuracy.

Bookmark and Share


Lilio Gregorio Giraldi; ed. & trans. John N. Grant
Modern Poets.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.
Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library, 48.
Publication due: May 2011.
Size: 5-1/4 x 8 inches.
Page count: 400pp.

Publisher's recommended price
Hardback ISBN 9780674055759, $29.95/£19.95/€21.00

Description:

Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479-1552) received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron, he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there; Mirandola, where he entered the service of Gianfrancesco Pico; Milan, where he studied Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles; and Rome, where he enjoyed the munificence of Pope Leo X. Following the sack of Rome in 1527, Giraldi eventually made his way back to Ferrara, where he spent the last years of his life.

Giraldi was the author of many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, translated here into English for the first time. Modeled on Cicero's Brutus, the work discusses hundreds of contemporary neo-Latin and vernacular poets, giving a panoramic view of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century from Great Britain to Greece, but concentrating above all on Italy.