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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.

Hess, NathanielUniversity of Cambridge2022

Greek-to-Latin verse translation is a phenomenon entirely absent from the Middle Ages, and which appears only fitfully and tardily in the 15th century, some decades after prose translation becomes a staple of humanist practice. By the end of the 16th century, however, almost the entire corpus of …

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