Fiammetta ; Paradise

Author(s)

• Verino, Ugolino
• Wilson, Allan M. (Allan Murray)

Bibliographic Information

Fiammetta ; Paradise

Ugolino Verino ; edited and translated by Allan M. Wilson

（The I Tatti Renaissance library, 69）

Harvard University Press, 2016

Other Title

Paradisus

Note

Text in English and Latin on facing pages

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-430) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BB20281548
• ISBN:
  • 9780674088627
• LCCN: 2015008341
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 471 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA8585.V45
  • DC23 : 871/.04
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA52223668