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Ugolino Verino (1438–1516) was among the principal Latin poets in the Florence of Lorenzo de’Medici.
A student of Cristoforo Landino, whose youthful love poems Verino imitated, Verino was a leading figure in the Renaissance revival of ancient Latin elegy.
He blended Propertius, Ovid’s Amores, and elements of Petrarch’s lyric style to forge a distinctive poetic voice in a three-book cycle of poems in honor of his lady-love, Fiammetta.
His Paradise, by contrast, is a vision-poem indebted to Vergil’s Aeneid, Dante, and Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, in which Ugolino is taken on a tour of Heaven and the afterlife by the recently deceased Cosimo de’Medici.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:05/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780674088627
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:05/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780674088627