Renaissance Latin Writers - William of Ockham, Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Pope Pius II, Leonardo Bruni, Marsilio Ficino (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 214. Not illustrated. Chapters: William of Ockham, Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Pope Pius Ii, Leonardo Bruni, Marsilio Ficino, Leon Battista Alberti, Rodolphus Agricola, Conrad Celtes, Regiomontanus, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Jean Buridan, Iovianus Pontanus, Angelo Sabino, Francesco Filelfo, Bartolomeo Platina, Johann Reuchlin, Lorenzo Valla, Poliziano, Alfonso de Cartagena, Johannes Trithemius, Valentin Naboth, Laurentius Corvinus, Wessel Gansfort, Antonio Beccadelli, Julius Pomponius Laetus, Richard Fitzralph, John Clyn, Giovanni Michele Alberto Da Carrara, Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Andrea Ammonio, Cristoforo Landino, Janus Pannonius, Filip Callimachus, Baptista Malatesta, Maffeo Vegio, John of Hildesheim, Sicco Polenton, Jacobus de Cessolis, Benvenuto Rambaldi Da Imola, Ercole Strozzi. Excerpt: Angelo Sabino or in Latin Angelus Sabinus (fl. 1460s1470s) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet laureate, classical philologist, Ovidian impersonator, and putative rogue. Sabino's real name was probably Angelo Sani di Cure, with the toponymic indicating that he was from Cure or Curi (ancient Cures), in formerly Sabine territory, hence his Latin appellation Sabinus. He wrote under a multitude of pen names, including Aulus Sabinus when he impersonated the Sabinus who was Ovid's friend, and Angelus Gnaeus Quirinus Sabinus, in reference to Quirinus as an originally Sabine god of war in ancient Rome. Sabino advertised himself as a poet laureate on the title pages of his editions of ancient texts. It is unclear in whose court he held the position, or in what year, though one scholar conjectured 1469. At any rate, he was identified as such in the period 14691474, following the composition of his historical epic De excidio civitatis Leodiensis ("The Fall of the City of Liege"). Written in Latin hexameters...