Letters to Friends

Author: Bartolomeo Fonzio
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0674058364

Letters to Friends (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447-1513) was a leading literary figure in Florence during the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli. Get Letters to Friends literature books for free.
A professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Florence, he included among his friends and colleagues leading figures such as Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, John Argyropoulos, Cristoforo Landino, and Pietro Soderini. He was one of the principal collaborators in creating the famous humanist library of King Mattyas Corvinus of Hungary. As a scholar and teacher, he devoted himself to the study of classical authors, particularly Valerius Flaccus, Livy, Persius and Juvenal; his studies of Juvenal led to bitter polemics with Poliziano. Fonzio's letters, translated here for the first time into English, are a win Check Letters to Friends our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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