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I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY

 

Since 2001, the I Tatti Renaissance Library has been the only series to make the major literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin available to a broad readership. Each volume provides a reliable Latin text together with an accurate, readable English translation on facing pages, accompanied by an editor’s introduction, notes on the text, brief bibliography, and index. Presenting current scholarship in an attractive and convenient format, The I Tatti Renaissance Library aims to facilitate access to this essential literature for both students and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines as well as to general readers.

The series’ General Editor is Professor Shane Butler, to whom all editorial question should be directed. For further information on the series, click here. Volumes can be bought through Harvard University Press.

Ciceronian Controversies
DellaNeva, JoAnn. 2007. Ciceronian Controversies. Vol. 26. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 26, xxxix, 295 p. Publisher's Version Abstract

Introduction --The Poliziano-Cortesi Exchange (mid-1480s). 1. Angelo Poliziano to Paolo Cortesi -- 2. Paolo Cortesi to Angelo Poliziano -- The Pico-Bembo Exchange (1512-13). 3. Gianfrancesco Pico, On Imitation, to Pietro Bembo -- 4. Pietro Bembo to Gianfrancesco Pico -- 5. Gianfrancesco Pico to Pietro Bembo -- The Cinzio-Calcagnini-Lilio Exchange (1532-37). 6. Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio to Celio Calcagnini -- 7. Celio Calcagnini to Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio -- 8. Celio Calcagnini, On Imitation, to Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio -- 9. Lilio Gregorio Giraldi to Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio -- The Possevino Treatises (1593-1603). 10. From the Cicero: On the Technique of Writing Letters. On the Art of Speaking, including Ecclesiastical Speech -- 11. From the Bibliotheca Selecta, Book 18: On the Art of Composing Letters."The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy is the subject of the texts collected for the first time in this volume: exchange of letters between Angelo Poliziano and Paolo Cortesi; between Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Pietro Bembo; and between Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio and his mentor Celio Calcagnini. A postscript by Lilio Gregorio Giraldi and writings by Antonio Possevino comment further on this correspondence."--BOOK JACKET.

Baiae
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, and Rodney G Dennis. 2006. Baiae. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 22. Vol. 22. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 22, xxiv, 236 p. Publisher's Version Abstract
"Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings of Naples. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, given the subtitle Baiae by their first editor Pietro Summonte, experiment brilliantly with the metrical form associated principally with the ancient Latin poet Catullus. The poems are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples.They are translated here for the first time into English."--BOOK JACKET.
Humanist Comedies
Grund, Gary R. 2005. Humanist Comedies. Vol. 19. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 19, xxx, 460 p. Publisher's Version Abstract
Paulus / Pier Paolo Vergerio -- The play of Philodoxus / Leon Battista Alberti -- Philogenia and Epiphebus / Ugolino Pisani -- Chrysis / Enea Silvio Piccolomini -- The epirote / Tommaso Mezzo.
Silvae
Poliziano, Angelo, and Charles Fantazzi. 2004. Silvae. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 14. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 14, xx, 215 p. Publisher's Version
Short Epics
Vegio, Maffeo, Michael CJ Putnam, and James Hankins. 2004. Short Epics. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 15. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 15, lviii, 184 p. Publisher's Version Abstract

Book XIII of the Aeneid -- Astyanax -- The golden fleece -- Antoniad.

Invectives
Petrarca, Francesco, and David Marsh. 2003. Invectives. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 11. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 11, xx, 539 p. Publisher's Version Abstract

Invectives against a physician -- Invective against a man of high rank with no knowledge or virtue -- On his own ignorance and that of many others -- Invective against a detractor of Italy."Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch's Latin epic "Africa" imitated Virgil and his compendium "On Illustrious Men" was inspired by Livy, so Petrarch's four "Invectives" were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The "Invectives" are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages--against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. They defend the value of literary culture against obscurantism and provide a clear statement of the values of Renaissance humanism. This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives"--Jacket.

Biographical Writings
Manetti, Giannozzo, Stefano U Baldassarri, and Rolf Bagemihl. 2003. Biographical Writings. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 9. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 9, xix, 330 p. Publisher's Version Abstract

Lives of three illustrious Florentine poets. Life of Dante ; Life of Francesca Petrarca ; Life of Giovanni Boccaccio -- From On famous men of great age -- From Against Jews and the gentiles -- Lives of Socrates and Seneca. Life of Socrates ; Life of Seneca.

Momus
Alberti, Leon Battista, Virginia Brown, and Sarah Knight. 2003. Momus. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 8. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 8, xxv, 407 p. Publisher's Version
Famous Women
Boccaccio, Giovanni. 2003. Famous Women. Edited by Virginia Brown. Vol. [1]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, [1], 282. Hollis
Later Travels
d'Ancona Ciriaco,, Edward W Bodnar, and Clive Foss. 2003. Later Travels. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 10. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 10, xxii, 459 p., [10] p. of plates. Publisher's Version