{"product_id":"latin-poetry-by-ludovico-ariosto-9780674977174","title":"Latin Poetry","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLudovico Ariosto (1474–1533), one of Italy's greatest poets, was a leading figure of sixteenth-century Italian humanism. After some years working in the household of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, to whom he dedicated his dazzling romance epic \u003ci\u003eOrlando Furioso\u003c\/i\u003e (1516), Ariosto settled in Ferrara under the patronage of Ippolito's brother Alfonso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe continued to write throughout his life, publishing 214 letters, five plays, seven satires in verse, and dozens of lyric poems in Italian and Latin. Ariosto's Latin poems, translated into English for the first time in this volume, are remarkable for their erudition, technical virtuosity, and playfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on a collation of the autograph manuscript and \u003ci\u003eeditio princeps\u003c\/i\u003e, and offers a unique insight into the Latin formation of one of the Renaissance's foremost vernacular writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471070118124,"sku":"9780674977174","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674977174-latin-poetry.jpg?v=1775232418","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/latin-poetry-by-ludovico-ariosto-9780674977174","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}