Momus / Leon Battista Alberti ; English translation by Sarah Knight ; Latin text edited by Virginia Brown and Sarah Knight.

Main entry:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.

Title & Author:

Momus / Leon Battista Alberti ; English translation by Sarah Knight ; Latin text edited by Virginia Brown and Sarah Knight.

Publication:

Description:

xxv, 407 pages ; 21 cm

Series:

The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Latin original and English translation on facing pages.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0674007549 (alk. paper)
9780674007543 (alk. paper)
0674010655 (alk. paper)
9780674010659 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472 Momus
Alberti, Leon Battista.
Momus.
State, The Early works to 1800.
Political science Early works to 1800.
État Ouvrages avant 1800.
Political science.
State, The.

Form/genre:

Satire.
Writings.
Early works.

Added entries:

Knight, Sarah, 1975-
Brown, Virginia, 1940-2009.
I Tatti Renaissance library ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227445
Call No.: NA44.A334.A35 2003
Status: Available

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