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Angelo Ambrogini, commonly known by his nickname Poliziano from his birthplace, Montepulciano (July 14, 1454September 24, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s, as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil.

Works

His Latin and Greek works include:

  • the poem Manto, in which he pronounced a panegyric of Virgil;
  • the Ambra, which contains an idyllic sketch of Tuscan landscape and a eulogy of Homer;
  • the Rusticus, which celebrated country life;
  • the Nutricia, which was intended to serve as a general introduction to the study of ancient and modern poetry.

His principal Italian works are:

  • his most highly regarded work in Italian, Stanze per la giostra, or La Giostra, written upon Giuliano de' Medici's victory in a tournament in 1475. This work was left unfinished following the 1478 Pazzi conspiracy, which resulted in the assassination of its protagonist. In addition, Lorenzo's wife Clarice strongly disapproved of the humanistic nature of the poem, causing Politian to resign, leave Florence in 1479 and settle in Mantua, where he set to work on the Fabula di Orfeo.
  • the Orfeo, a lyrical drama performed at Mantua with musical accompaniment;
  • a collection of Tuscan songs, reproducing various forms of popular poetry distinguished by a roseate fluency.

His philosophical works are:

  • Praelectio de dialectica (1491), an introduction to Aristotelian logic;
  • Lamia. Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica (1492);
  • Dialectica (1493), an introduction to a course on Aristotelian philosophy.





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