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Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) served five kings of Naples as a courtier, official, and diplomat, and earned even greater fame as a scholar, prose author, and poet. His Dialogues reflect his diverse interests in religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as in everyday life in fifteenth-century Naples. They are especially important for their vivid picture of the contemporary gatherings of Pontano and his friends in the humanist academy over which he presided from around 1471 until shortly before his death. This volume completes the I Tatti edition of Pontano's five surviving dialogues and features both Aegidius and Asinus. The conversation in Aegidius, named for the Augustinian theologian Giles of Viterbo, ranges over various topics, including creation, dreams, free will, the immortality of the soul, the relation between heaven and earth, language, astrology, and mysticism. The Asinus is less a dialogue than a fantastical autobiographical comedy in which Pontano himself is represented as having gone mad and fallen in love with an ass. This is the first translation of these dialogues into English.
Naples (Italy) --- History --- Literarisches Leben. --- Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, --- Neapel.
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"La taille impressionnante de ce quatrième volume de la série De lingua et linguis, née du projet de recherches franco-allemand Eurolab...est à la mesure de l'enthousiasme, de l'ambition et de la persévérance qui y ont présidé. Cherchant à mieux comprendre les dynamiques des langues vernaculaires dans l'Europe de la Renaissance en considérant aussi bien les langues de la Romania que celles de la Germania, nous avions choisi d'étudier des 'laboratoires' dans lesquels les langues vernaculaires, dans leur confrontation même avec le latin mais aussi avec les autres vernaculaires, s'expérimentent et s'élaborent selon des modalités qu'il fallait encore largement mettre au jour dans leurs liens déterminants avec les autres langues."--"Avant-propos", p. [7].
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