{"product_id":"poems-141","title":"Poems","description":"Cristoforo Landino (1424–1498), one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, is best known today for his Platonizing commentaries on Dante and Vergil. His most substantial work of poetry was his \u003ci\u003eThree Books on Xandra\u003c\/i\u003e, written while still a young man. They consist primarily of love poetry in Latin directed to his lady-love Alessandra, but they also chronicle his life, friendships, literary studies, and the patronage of his work by Piero de' Medici. Inspired equally by the ancient Roman love-elegy and by Petrarch’s \u003ci\u003eCanzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici. Also included in this volume is the \u003ci\u003eCarmina Varia\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection whose centerpiece is a group of elegies directed to the Venetian humanist Bernardo Bembo. These bring to life the Platonic passion Bembo conceived for Ginevra de’Benci, later the subject of a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. This edition contains the first translation of both works into English.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252902547800,"sku":"9780674031487","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674031487.jpg?v=1770282040","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/poems-141","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}