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Stratified Lie Groups and Potential Theory for Their Sub-Laplacians

By: Andrea Bonfiglioli,Ermanno Lanconelli,Francesco Uguzzoni

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Stratified Lie Groups and Potential Theory for Their Sub-Laplacians

By: Andrea Bonfiglioli,Ermanno Lanconelli,Francesco Uguzzoni

This book provides an extensive treatment of Potential Theory for sub-Laplacians on stratified Lie groups. It also provides a largely self-contained presentation of stratified Lie groups, and of their Lie algebra of left-invariant vector fields. The presentation is accessible to graduate students and requires no specialized knowledge in algebra or differential geometry.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540718974

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9783540718970

Petrarch

By: Francesco Petrarca

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Petrarch

By: Francesco Petrarca

Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes . . . " —Chronicles "As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the development of Western poetic tradition, Musa offers copious and up-to-date annotation to each poem . . . along with a substantial, sensitive, and intelligent introduction that is genuinely helpful for the first-time reader and thought provoking for Petrarch scholars and other medievalists." —Choice The 366 poems of Petrarch's Canzoniere represent one of the most influential works in Western literature. Varied in form, style, and subject matter, these "scattered rhymes" contains metaphors and conceits that have been absorbed into the literature and language of love. In this bilingual edition, Mark Musa provides verse translations, annotations, and an introduction co-authored with Barbara Manfredi.

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Indiana University Press

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0253213177

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9780253213174

Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors

By: Fabrizio Caccavale,Mario Iamarino,Francesco Pierri,Vincenzo Tufano

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Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors

By: Fabrizio Caccavale,Mario Iamarino,Francesco Pierri,Vincenzo Tufano

The Chemical Batch Reactor is aimed at tackling the above problems from a blending of academic and industrial perspectives. Advanced solutions (i.e., those based on recent research results) to the four fundamental problems of modeling, identification, control and fault diagnosis for batch processes are developed in detail in four distinct chapters. In each chapter, a general overview of foundational concepts is also given, together with a review of recent and classical literature on the various subjects. To provide a unitary treatment of the different topics and give a firm link to the underlying practical applications, a single case study is developed as the book progresses; a batch process of industrial interest, i.e., the phenol-formaldehyde reaction for the production of phenolic resins, is adopted to test the various techniques developed. In this way, a roadmap of the solutions to fundamental problems, ranging from the early stages of the production process to the complete design of control and diagnosis systems, is provided for both industrial practitioners and academic researchers.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0857291955

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9780857291950

The History of Italy

By: Francesco Guicciardini

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The History of Italy

By: Francesco Guicciardini

In 1537 Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to three popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador, administrator, military captain--and persona non grata with the ruling Medici after the siege of Florence--retired to his villa to write a history of his times. His Storia d'Italia became the classic history of Italy--both a brilliant portrayal of the Renaissance and a penetrating vision into the tragedy and comedy of human history in general. Sidney Alexander's readable translation and abridgment of Guicciardini's four-volume work earned the prestigious 1970 P.E.N. Club translation award. His perceptive introduction and notes add much to the understanding of Guicciardini's masterpiece.

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Princeton University Press

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0691213917

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9780691213910

Manuscript Poetics

Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature

By: Francesco Marco Aresu

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Manuscript Poetics

Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature

By: Francesco Marco Aresu

Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve. This original study is both an investigation into the material foundations of literature and a reflection on notions of textuality, writing, and media in late medieval and early modern Italy. Francesco Marco Aresu examines the book-objects of manuscripts and early printed editions, asking questions about the material conditions of production, circulation, and reception of literary works. He invites scholars to reconcile reading with seeing (and with touching) and to challenge contemporary presumptions about technological neutrality and the modes of interfacing and reading. Manuscript Poetics investigates the correspondences between textuality and materiality, content and medium, and visual-verbal messages and their physical support through readings of Dante Alighieri’s Vita nova, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida, and Francesco Petrarca’s canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta). Aresu shows that Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarca evaluated and deployed the tools of scribal culture to shape, signal, or layer meanings beyond those they conveyed in their written texts. Medieval texts, Aresu argues, are uniquely positioned to provide this perspective, and they are foundational to the theoretical understanding of new forms and materials in our media-saturated contemporary world.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268206473

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9780268206475

Dante's Performance

Music, Dance, and Drama in the "Commedia"

By: Francesco Ciabattoni

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Dante's Performance

Music, Dance, and Drama in the "Commedia"

By: Francesco Ciabattoni

Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante's Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgical drama, psalm singing, or dance performance. The sacred poem finds influence in medieval theories of the performing arts as well as actual performances which Dante would have seen in churches or town squares. Dante's Performance opens a new perspective from which to consider the Commedia: Dante expected his contemporary readers to recognize references to and echoes of psalms, sacred plays, and performative practices. Twenty-first-century readers are tasked with reconstructing a cultural framework which allows us to grasp those same textual references. From the dramatization of the harrowing of hell in Inferno IX, to Beatrice's celebratory return on top of Mount Purgatory, to the songs of the blessed, this study connects Dante's language to coeval theoretical and practical texts about performance. If hell is "the Middle Age's theatrum diaboli," purgatory stages a performed purification through songs and acting, while paradise offers the spectacle of blessed spirits within the heavenly spheres as an aid to human understanding (Par. IV 28-39).

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111406490

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9783111406497

120 years of Cinema by lumière broters in 50 shades of grey

By: Francesco Primerano

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120 years of Cinema by lumière broters in 50 shades of grey

By: Francesco Primerano

The history of cinema is presented as a planetary firmament of myths and actors as timeless and ineffable and sublime art form. The film, in any kind is present, the show is ideal where it captures the supremacy of the soul, where the glory is the result of ideas and interpretations, where the style is unmistakable and emotions come to life in an unprecedented virtuosity. The book in question simply wants to celebrate 120 years of Cinema, the same cinema that made us love, dream and paint the best nectars of our lives, making us understand that despite everything, the show must go on. It is a journey into the world of cinema, the first short story "The arrival of a train at La Ciotat" (1895) by the Lumière brothers to the current movie "50 shades of gray" by Sam Taylor-Johnson, between 1000 timeless myths, from Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn, Marlon Brando James Dean, from Sophia Loren to Gina Lollobrigida, Totò, Massimo Troisi, Elizabeth Taylor and Brigitte Bardot, from Monica Vitti in Virna Lisi, Alberto Sordi Roberto Benigni.

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8893067730

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Flood Early Warning Systems

Knowledge and Tools for Their Critical Assessment

By: Daniela Molinari,Scira Menoni,Francesco Ballio

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Flood Early Warning Systems

Knowledge and Tools for Their Critical Assessment

By: Daniela Molinari,Scira Menoni,Francesco Ballio

Presenting the results of an ambitious research activity this book intends to understand why Early Warning Systems (EWSs) fail. However, from the beginning, the objective turned out to be challenging; first, because, so far, there is not a shared understanding of what an EWS is (among both researchers and practitioners communities); second, as a consequence, because it is equally unclear when an EWS can be considered successful or not. Due to this, the research needed first to face some “open questions” instead of going straight to the point under investigation. Specifically, it was first necessary to define EWS, identify its components and functions, peculiarities, and weak points. Only at that point, a first attempt to evaluate EWS performance was possible. Flood Early Warning Systems Performance is organised according to the conceptual steps required by the research. In part I the “open questions” about the definition and the role of EWSs are handled, the aim being the identification of how to evaluate their effectiveness/performance. Part II focuses on the real aim of the research, providing concepts and tools to assess EWS performance; suggested tools are also implemented in a case study to describe how they can be applied in practice. Focusing specifically on the topic of flood risk in mountainous regions, the book can be viewed as a sort of manual for EWS designers, managers, and users. It is organised into different independent sections which will appeal both to experts as well as those with an interest in the subject. Most of results can also be exported to other hazards.

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WIT Press

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1845646886

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9781845646882

Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)

By: Francesco Petrarch

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Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)

By: Francesco Petrarch

Petrarch, the Italian scholar, poet and humanist, was a major figure of the Renaissance, whose poems addressed to Laura, his idealised beloved, were imitated throughout Europe and served as an enduring model for lyrical poetry. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Petrarch’s collected poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Petrarch's life and works * Concise introduction to Petrarch and his poetry * Excellent formatting of the poems * Features the various translations from George Bell and Sons 1879 edition of ‘The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch’ * Special Italian first line and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes a selection of Petrarch's prose, including PETRARCH’S SECRET * Features a bonus biography - discover Petrarch's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Francesco Petrarch BRIEF INTRODUCTION: FRANCESCO PETRARCH THE SONNETS, TRIUMPHS, AND OTHER POEMS OF PETRARCH The Poems LIST OF POEMS BY ITALIAN FIRST LINE LIST OF POEMS BY ITALIAN FIRST LINE (ALPHABETICAL) LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Prose LETTERS TO CLASSICAL AUTHORS PETRARCH’S SECRET The Biography THE LIFE OF PETRARCH by Thomas Campbell Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

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Delphi Classics

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1786562065

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9781786562067

The Italian Genius on Display

The First National Exhibition of History of Science (Florence, 1929) and the Preservation of Scientific Heritage in Fascist Italy

By: Francesco Barreca

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The Italian Genius on Display

The First National Exhibition of History of Science (Florence, 1929) and the Preservation of Scientific Heritage in Fascist Italy

By: Francesco Barreca

Held in Florence in 1929, the First National Exhibition of History of Science was a pivotal event in the shaping of Italian cultural panorama. With more than 8000 items on display coming from public and private lenders, it showed the general public how rich the Italian scientific heritage was and how it could be regarded as part of a general nation-claiming narrative, thus laying the foundation for today’s protection policy and scholarly research. Moreover, it is also a telling case-study that offers precious insights into the complex relationships between cultural enterprises and political power during the fascist era, helping us understand how today’s geography of Italian cultural institutions have been shaped and reshaped through time.

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BRILL

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9004297413

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9789004297418

Displacing Caravaggio

Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture

By: Francesco Zucconi

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Displacing Caravaggio

Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture

By: Francesco Zucconi

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio’s work, Francesco Zucconi takes Baroque art as a point of departure to guide readers through some of the most haunting and compelling images of our time. Each chapter analyzes a different form of media and explores a problem that ties together art history and humanitarian communications: from Caravaggio’s attempt to represent life itself as a subject of painting to the way bodies and emotions are presented in NGO campaigns. What emerges from this probing inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.

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Springer

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3319933787

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9783319933788

Sicilian Visitors Volume 2 - Culture

By: Francesco Rocco Ruggeri

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Sicilian Visitors Volume 2 - Culture

By: Francesco Rocco Ruggeri

Sicilian Visitors Vol 2 - Culture focuses on a wide range of cultural aspects of the island of Sicily including religion, literature, art, music, science, sports, food as well describing visitors who have come to the island and their impressions. Vol.2 is the companion of Vol 1 which describes the island ́s history.

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Lulu.com

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138797789X

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9781387977895

FORT VERENA, May 24, 1915, 04:00 Trilogy of the Great War

from the memories of the peasant-infantryman Elmo Cermaria, Nonno Peppe

By: Francesco Nicolini

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FORT VERENA, May 24, 1915, 04:00 Trilogy of the Great War

from the memories of the peasant-infantryman Elmo Cermaria, Nonno Peppe

By: Francesco Nicolini

These memories, handwritten by Elmo Cermaria (Nonno Peppe) for his grandson Checco (Francesco Nicolini), tell of when, as a young man of 20, he found himself hurled into the inferno of the First World War. In those days, you could cry your heart out for a bread roll denied, then miraculously regained thanks to the compassion of a German soldier, “the hated enemy”. These recollections are terse, without a trace of rhetoric and devoid of recriminations. Nonno Peppe tells the facts just as he experienced them first hand, without expressing any condemnation of those responsible for them, even though an awareness of the large-scale massacre he witnessed transpires from his account. When Nonno Peppe delivered the manuscript to his grandson on his wedding day, he asked him to make a promise: “Let the President of the Republic know what we did for Italy.” A hundred years ago, whole generations of young Italian men were stripped of human honor and dignity. Only a few of these young men would live on and become our grandfathers; and only a few of us would be fortunate enough to become “grandchildren of the Great War” and bear witness to their ordeal.

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Edizioni Il Fiorino Modena

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8875496765

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9788875496760

Neurology of the infant

By: Francesco Guzzetta

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Neurology of the infant

By: Francesco Guzzetta

In the first two years of life, several important and interlinked neurological functions develop; this is a decisive developmental period. Neurological disorders arising in early childhood therefore require special attention and should be defined precisely. To be understood and managed correctly, these disorders (epilepsy, cerebral lesions, tumours, nerve damage, etc.) must be considered as a whole. By compartmentalizing the disorders and only focusing on a certain number of them, physicians run the risk of neglecting others which could have been useful in reaching a more accurate diagnosis. Written by neuropaediatricians with the aim of sharing their knowledge, this book is the only one of its kind to date to explore, in such detail, all the factors which have the potential to perturb neurological development.

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John Libbey Eurotext

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2742010599

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9782742010592

The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood

By: Francesco de Ceglia

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The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood

By: Francesco de Ceglia

This book examines Naples’s patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic, and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction. Three times a year, Neapolitans gather to witness the recurring phenomenon of the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood. From the seventeenth century to the present, crowds have prayed to the city’s patron for protection from fires, earthquakes, plagues, droughts, and the fury of Mt. Vesuvius. In the “miraculous” moment of transposition from solid to liquid, the faithful seek respite from the ills of the world in the saintly blood, a visual reminder of the blood of Christ spilled for their salvation. In Naples, the periodical liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood is not officially recognized as miraculous by the Catholic Church, which now more cautiously refers to it as a prodigy. Nevertheless, for centuries, this phenomenon has been called “a miracle” in liturgical texts approved by the ecclesiastical authority and in the words of bishops, cardinals, popes, and saints. However, not everyone agreed. This volume follows the efforts of theologians, alchemists, charlatans, and scientists who, through the centuries, have tried to answer questions such as: Is the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood really a miracle? If not, how is it possible to explain a phenomenon that occurs only on dates liturgically relevant to the saint? The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle will be of great value to those interested in Religious Studies, Italian Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, as well as the History of Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040172350

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9781040172353

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

By: Francesco Landolfi

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Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

By: Francesco Landolfi

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.

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1000623483

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9781000623482

Between God and Man

Angels in Italian Art

By: Francesco Buranelli,Marco Bussagli,Cecilia Sica,Roberta Bernabei,Mississippi Museum of Art

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Between God and Man

Angels in Italian Art

By: Francesco Buranelli,Marco Bussagli,Cecilia Sica,Roberta Bernabei,Mississippi Museum of Art

How Italian artists have represented one of the most revered religious images--the angel

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1887422153

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Odes

By: Francesco Filelfo

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Odes

By: Francesco Filelfo

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.

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Harvard University Press

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0674035631

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9780674035638

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