Poliziano

Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) was a Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil.

Final Years

His private life was uneventful until the end. He passed it as a house-friend and dependant of the Medicis and as a simple man of letters for whom (with truly Tuscan devotion to the Saturnian country) rural pleasures were always acceptable. He was never married; and his morals incurred suspicion, to which his own Greek verses lend a certain amount of plausible coloring. He died, half broken-hearted by the loss of his friend and patron Lorenzo de Medici, on the 24th of September 1494, just before the wave of foreign invasion which was gathering in France swept over Italy.

Related Topics:
Saturnian - France

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