{"product_id":"2940001069140","title":"Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eCristoforo Landino (1424–1498), one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, is best known today for his Platonizing commentaries on Dante and Virgil. His most substantial work of poetry was his \u003ci\u003eThree Books on Xandra\u003c\/i\u003e, written while still a young man. They consist primarily of love poetry in Latin directed to his lady-love Alessandra, but they also chronicle his life, friendships, literary studies, and the patronage of his work by Piero de' Medici. Inspired equally by the ancient Roman love-elegy and by Petrarch’s \u003ci\u003eCanzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici. Also included in this volume is the \u003ci\u003eCarmina Varia\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection whose centerpiece is a group of elegies directed to the Venetian humanist Bernardo Bembo. These bring to life the Platonic passion Bembo conceived for Ginevra de’Benci, later the subject of a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. This edition contains the first translation of both works into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"Printed for J. Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077464310000,"sku":"2940001069140","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940001069140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}