This book presents the first English translation of an important Renaissance Latin text: Angelo Poliziano's Lamia, an opening oration to a 1492 course at the University of Florence that amounts to a rethinking of the mission and nature of philosophy. An edition of the Latin text is also offered, as are four contextualizing studies.
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This book presents the first English translation of an important Renaissance Latin text: Angelo Poliziano's Lamia, an opening oration to a 1492 course at the University of Florence that amounts to a rethinking of the mission and nature of philosophy. An edition of the Latin text is also offered, as are four contextualizing studies.
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Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 9004185909. Text clean and tight; no dust jacket; Brill's Studies In Intellectual History; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 282 pages.
