Book Review: Apologetic Writings
/In Florence of the 1490s, a ranting Dominican friar picked a fight with the wrong Pope and lost badly. A new I Tatti volume translates the bickering before the bonfire.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Cyriac of Ancona
/During the Italian Renaissance, one enterprising autodidact took it upon himself to track down and transcribe as many inscriptions from the ancient world as he could find
Read MoreBook Review: Dialogues of Pontano
/Two witty dialogues by a great Italian Renaissance humanist get a fresh Latin textual overhaul - and their very first English translation.
Read MoreBook Review: Commentaries on Plato
/Marsilio Ficino's enormous commentary on the Parmenides of Plato receives a fantastic scholarly edition from - who else? - Harvard's I Tatti Renaissance Library
Read MoreBook Review: Dialectical Disputations
/Lorenzo Valla, whose exposure of the "Donation of Constantine" was the opening salvo of modern humanism, spent years writing one long argument with Aristotle, now fully translated for the first time.
Read MoreBook Review: Letters to Friends
/Sooner or later, Harvard's glorious I Tatti Renaissance Library gets around to everybody.
Read MoreBook Review: Geneaology of the Pagan Gods
/A massive, lively, entertaining work by Boccaccio that isn't "The Decameron"
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