{"product_id":"fiammetta-paradise-9780674088627","title":"Fiammetta. Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ugolino Verino | Allan M. Wilson | Allan M. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUgolino Verino (1438-1516) was among the principal Latin poets in the Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici. A student of Cristoforo Landino, whose youthful love poems Verino imitated, Verino was a leading figure in the Renaissance revival of ancient Latin elegy. He blended Propertius, Ovid's \u003ci\u003eAmores, \u003c\/i\u003e and elements of Petrarch's lyric style to forge a distinctive poetic voice in a three-book cycle of poems in honor of his lady-love, Fiammetta. His \u003ci\u003eParadise, \u003c\/i\u003e by contrast, is a vision-poem indebted to Vergil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid, \u003c\/i\u003e Dante, and Cicero's \u003ci\u003eDream of Scipio, \u003c\/i\u003e in which Ugolino is taken on a tour of Heaven and the afterlife by the recently deceased Cosimo de'Medici.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969508851863,"sku":"9780674088627","price":3114.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674088627.webp?v=1782922147","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fiammetta-paradise-9780674088627","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}