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LORENZO DE’ MEDICI
VOL. II.
THE MAGNIFICENT
BY
ALFRED VON REUMONT
TRANSLATED from THE GERMAN by ROBERT HARRISON
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.
LONDONSMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE1876
[All rights reserved]
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
FOURTH BOOK—continued.
Second Part.
TIME OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT.
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| LORENZO DE’ MEDICI AS A POET. | |
| PAGE | |
| Lorenzo’s Letter to Don Federigo of Aragon accompanying a Collection ofOld Italian Poems—Opinions on Italian Poetry—The Poets of the ThirteenthCentury—Dante and Successors—The Italian Vulgar Tongue—Lorenzo’sPosition in Literature—Influence of Antiquity and the DantesquePeriod—The Feeling for Nature in Lorenzo’s Poetry—The Love Poems—LucreziaDonati—The Nature of Love—Lorenzo’s Sonnets—Idylls—‘Corinto’—‘LaNencia da Barberino’—‘Ambra’—‘The Hawking Party’and ‘I Beoni’—Prevalence of the Burlesque—Dance and Carnaval Songs—CarnavalCompanies—Mystery-Play of St. John and St. Paul—SpiritualSongs | 3 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| MARSILIO FICINO AND CRISTOFORO LANDINO. | |
| Platonism—Ficino’s Influence on Religion and Philosophy—The Connectionof Platonism with Christianity—Speculation and Reality—Marsilio Ficinoand Dante—Ficino’s Works—Book on Christian Learning—Translationof Plato—‘Theologia Platonica’—Translation of Plotinus and Dionysiusthe Areopagite—Ficino’s Letters on Personal Relations—His Connectionwith Learned Foreigners—His Manner of life—His Advice to Lorenzo[vi]de’ Medici and to Cardinal Raffael Riario—His Picture of a Right Wayof Living—Lorenzo’s Connection with Ficino—Cristoforo Landino’s Positionand Labours—The Camaldulensian Discussions—Leon Battista Albertiwith the Medici Brothers and their Friends in the Abbey of Camaldoli—VariousPhases of the Study of Dante—Dante and the Fifteenth CenturyBiographies of Dante—First Edition of the ‘Divine Comedy’—Landino’sEdition, with a Commentary—Study of Dante in Landino’s Time | 20 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| LUIGI PULCI AND ANGELO POLIZIANO. | |
| Matteo Palmieri and ‘The City of Life’—Burchiello and the Burlesque—TheRomantic Epos—Bernardo and Luca Pulci—The ‘Ciriffo Calvaneo’ andthe ‘Giostri’—Lui ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |