Momus
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Contributions
- Knight, Sarah. - Contributor
- Brown, Virginia, 1940- - Contributor
Publication
2003 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
101,750 words, Guess
Page Count
407 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3565692M
- ISBN-100674007549
- OCLC Control Number50958879
- OCLC Control Numberplatonictheology00fici_045
- Library of Congress Control Number2002038837
and 2 more
- Goodreads814671
- LibraryThing2010995
Classifications
- DDC320.1/01
- LCCJC143.A5 M613 2003
Description
"Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. Alberti deploys his singular erudition and wit to satirize subjects from court life and politics to philosophy and intellectuals, from grand architectural designs to human and divine folly. This edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on the two earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes the first full translation into English."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Topics
Places
Genres
- Early works to 1800.
Series Statement
- The I Tatti Renaissance library ;
Other Editions
- Momus
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