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Filelfo (1398–1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His Odes constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity.

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* Introduction to Filelfo's Odes Texts and Translations: * Book 1. Apollo. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 2. Clio. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 3. Euterpe. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 4. Thalia. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 5. Melpomene. Latin Texts and English Translations. Appendixes: * Appendix A. Dedicatees, Dramatis Personae, Themes, and Meters. * Appendix B. Distribution and Frequency of the Meters in Filelfo's Odes. * Appendix C. Filelfo's Meters and his Classical Models. * Appendix D. Biographies. * Note on the Text: Manuscripts and Orthography. * Bibliography * Abbreviations * Manuscripts * Early Printed Editions * Secondary Sources

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    A Hardback by Francesco Filelfo, Diana Robin

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 11 January 2009
      ISBN-13 9780674035638
      978-0674035638
      ISBN-10 0674035631
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Filelfo (1398–1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His Odes constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity.

      Table of Contents
      * Introduction to Filelfo's Odes Texts and Translations: * Book 1. Apollo. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 2. Clio. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 3. Euterpe. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 4. Thalia. Latin Texts and English Translations. * Book 5. Melpomene. Latin Texts and English Translations. Appendixes: * Appendix A. Dedicatees, Dramatis Personae, Themes, and Meters. * Appendix B. Distribution and Frequency of the Meters in Filelfo's Odes. * Appendix C. Filelfo's Meters and his Classical Models. * Appendix D. Biographies. * Note on the Text: Manuscripts and Orthography. * Bibliography * Abbreviations * Manuscripts * Early Printed Editions * Secondary Sources

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