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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Partly bleached jacket, otherwise very good and clean. With editor dedication to Wolfgang Haase. / Teils verblichener Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Mit Herausgeberwidmung an Wolfgang Haase. - Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de�Medici il Magnifico in Florence. His "Silvae� are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well as of his contemporaries writing in Italian. - Charles Fantazzi is Thomas Harriot Distinguished Visiting Professor of Classics and Italian at East Carolina University. ISBN 9780674014800