Italy and the classical tradition : : language, thought and poetry 1300-1600 / / edited by Carlo Caruso & Andrew Laird.

• TeilnehmendeR: Caruso, Carlo.; Laird, Andrew, Dr.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Duckworth,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages) :; illustrations
• Other title: The classical languages and Italian : some questions of grammar and rhetoric / Guilio Lepschy -- 'Itali dicunt ozie' : describing non-standard and low-register speech in Latin / Philip Burton -- 'Utriusque linguae peritus' : how did one learn Greek and acquire the texts? / Nigel Wilson -- Alberti and the classical canon / Martin McLaughlin -- Plutarch's Camma : a Greek literary heroine's adventures in Renaissance Italy / Letizia Panizza -- Italy, France and the classical tradition : the origins of philological commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Jill Kraye -- 'Unicuique suum' : observations on Dante as reader of classical authors / Claudia Villa -- Petrarch's diploma of crowning : the Privilegium laureationis / Jonathan Usher -- Putting Italian Renaissance lyric in order : Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Latin Liber carminum / Stefano Carrai -- A Roman dialogue with Virgil and Homer : Capilupi, the Cento and Rome / George Hugo Tucker.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9781472521378 (ebook); 0715637371 (hc.); 9780715637371
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Carlo Caruso & Andrew Laird.