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Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milanthe powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforzawritten by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts.

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Ianziti’s extraordinarily accurate and refined translation—based on Massimo Zaggia’s superb edition of the Latin texts—allows the modern reader to thoroughly approach Decembrio’s style and his idea of humanistic biography…There is no doubt that this publication represents one of the best testimonies of the renewed interest in the works of Pier Candido Decembrio, a champion of Italian humanism. -- Natale Vacalebre * Renaissance Quarterly *

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    A Hardback by Pier Candido Decembrio, Gary Ianziti, Massimo Zaggia

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 17/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9780674987524, 978-0674987524
      ISBN10: 0674987527
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milanthe powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforzawritten by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts.

      Trade Review
      Ianziti’s extraordinarily accurate and refined translation—based on Massimo Zaggia’s superb edition of the Latin texts—allows the modern reader to thoroughly approach Decembrio’s style and his idea of humanistic biography…There is no doubt that this publication represents one of the best testimonies of the renewed interest in the works of Pier Candido Decembrio, a champion of Italian humanism. -- Natale Vacalebre * Renaissance Quarterly *

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