Angelo Poliziano

Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaɲɲolo ambroˈdʒiːni]; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano (Italian: [ˈandʒelo politˈtsjaːno]) or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology. His nickname Poliziano, by which he is chiefly identified to the present day, was derived from the Latin name of his birthplace, Montepulciano (Mons Politianus). Poliziano's works include translations of passages from Homer's Iliad, an edition of the poetry of Catullus and commentaries on classical authors and literature. It was his classical scholarship that brought him the attention of the wealthy and powerful Medici family that ruled Florence. He served the Medici as a tutor to their children, and later as a close friend and political confidant. His later poetry, including La Giostra, glorified his patrons. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s, as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil.

Adonia - 16th Century Italian Music to Lament a Fallen God - 2022-02-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Leonardo da Vinci: Passeggiata Musicale - 2021-03-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Poliziano: La fabula di Orpheo - 2016-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Jean-Paul Liardet: Messe - Requiem - Lieder - 2015-04-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Still Smiling - From the Musical World of Leonardo da Vinci - 1997-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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