Lyric poetry ; Etna / Pietro Bembo ; edited and translated by Mary P. Chatfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547

Contributor:

Chatfield, Mary P.

Series:

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 18.

The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 18

Standardized Title:

Poems. English & Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547--Translations into English.

Bembo, Pietro.

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Translations into English.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Etna, Mount (Italy).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxi, 278 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Etna

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. After some years at the court of Urbino, where he exchanged Platonic love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, he moved to Rome and served as secretary to Leo X (1513-1520). Later he retired to Padua and a life of letters. He was made a cardinal in 1539. The poems in this volume come from all periods of his life and reflect both his erudition and his wide-ranging friendships. This verse edition is the first time they have been translated into English. This volume also includes the prose dialogue " Etna" , an account of Bembo's ascent of Mt. Etna in Sicily during his student days.

Contents:

Little Book of Poems 2

Appendix A Poems Excluded from the Carminum libellus 108

Appendix B Poems Variously Attributed to Bembo 174

Etna 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547. Aetna. English & Latin.

Etna.

ISBN:

0674017129

OCLC:

56942035