Odes (I Tatti Renaissance Library) by Francesco Filelfo; Translator-Diana Robin - 2009-11-30

Harvard University Press, 2009. Hard cover. Good/Good. Jacket is worn along spine and lightly stained, not affecting legibility of text. Cover is in excellent condition. Spine is shaken and cracked, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.

E-270: Harvard University Press. Very Good. 2009. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2009. 480 pgs. I Tatti Renaissance Library. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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… Read More

Harvard University Press, 2009-11-30. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Harvard University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. Hardback. 0674035631 . Dust jacket bright, stiff and clean, slight wear to the rear top edge; Boards firm, bound in blue cloth and elegantly decorated with gilt titles, corners sharp; Text clean and free from annotations, previous owner's signature to the rear paste-down, concealed behind the inner dust jacket flap; Binding tight. Overall an attractive, sturdy copy in very good condition. ; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 8.0 X 5.5 X 1.3 inches; 416 pages .

Hardback. New. Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance. "The Odes", completed in the mid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity and are a major literary achievement. This title offers an English translation of this book.

Harvard Univ Pr, 2009. Hardcover. New. 480 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.25 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.