#poliziano

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Of interest to you @centaurianthropology - a hot mention of Poliziano’s L’Orfeo!

[sparrow-in-boots]

commission for @robin-in-the-library of beloved Angelo Poliziano and kitty Telemacus! thank you so so much for the lovely comm!! <3

for comm info, click here or check my ko-fi!

[yourdailyqueer]

Poliziano (Angelo Ambrogini) (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 14 July 1454  

RIP: 24 September 1494

Ethnicity: White - Italian

Occupation: Scholar, poet, teacher, translator

Note: Served the Medici family as a tutor to their children, and later as a close friend and political confidant.

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-2017/02-22

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois

Fammi quanto dispetto far mi sai,

dammi quanto tu vuoi pena e tormento,

riditi del mio male e de' mie' guai,

guastami ogni disegno, ogni contento,

mostramiti nimica come fai,

tiemmi sempre in sospetto, in briga e stento:

e' non potrà però mai fare il cielo

ch'io non ti onori e ami di buon zelo.

("Fammi quanto dispetto far mi sai ", Agnolo Ambrogini named Poliziano, Rime, XV Century)

[girlboccaccio]

Italian literature tournament idea?

I have many things to do but still I want to fill the void of my existence, so a week ago I thought "why don't create a tumblr tournament between the authors from italian literature?".

For the names there are two simple option:

or I will chose the names from the literary canon

or I will open a google form when everyone, by a specified date, will insert the author names that will be put in the tounament.

both the three options combined: I will but the names already chosen under this post and after that open a google form if anyone else want to add some names. The more the merrier the longer = more violence between our favourite author from high school <3

The combination for the various challenges will be sorted randomly, I think I'll use a program/generator to do the job.

Idk if somebody else did the same thing for other literature, like the french or russian, but this idea could be used for various possibilities.

+ I think I'll add also playwrites, for me theatre and literature are different fields but a playwriter at the end of the road is still an author.

I also wanted to do the same thing for italian art, but is a field too wide and maybe in a future I could do it more by art schools/genres (best baroque artist/architect, best renaissance artist/architect etc).

[sforzesco]

if you've ever wondered how long something can sit in my WIP folder, this one is probably the idea I've been kicking around the longest

so. you see. what happened was.

last year I was reading about socratic dialogues in the renaissance right. only at one point, I got it confused with platonic discussions, and when you start reading about platonic discussions of love, you run into marsilio ficino, and I just kind of. stayed there until I ran out of books to read, and finally decided to finish this up!

Plato's Persona: Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Humanism, and Platonic Traditions, Denis J. J. Robinchaud

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

[seleccionpoetica]

Cuando ríe, al momento todo el cielo se serena.

Angelo Poliziano. “oídme un poco, amantes”

[italian-lit-tournament]

Italian literature tournament - First round.

Propaganda in support of the authors is accepted, you can write it both in the tag if reblog the poll (explaining maybe that is propaganda and you want to see posted) or in the comments. Every few days it will be recollected and posted here under the cut.

[sugarsnappeases]

guess who’s crying over orpheus and eurydice again……

[maranzalla]

what awaits @robin-in-the-library whenever the assassins creed derangement gets too crinkly

[attila-werther]

oh this is going to critical damage to me

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

We poked our head into San Marco but will do a more thorough visit later. Did find Angelo Polizano’s grave. At some point a statue of Savonarola was positioned in front of it about which I have a Lot of Feelings.

Couldn’t it have gone to like…the side a little? I get why Savonarola is there &c. And I get that he and Angelo were friends and that Angelo was one of his adherents I still just have weird feelings about it

(It’s because of the sad Marsilio to Angelo letter about astrology. Everyone was so messy and complicated)

[mercuriicultores]

Angelus Politianus – Angelus Politianus Paulo Cortesio suo s. d.

Mihi certe quicumque tantum componunt ex imitatione, similes esse vel psittaco vel picae videntur, proferentibus quae nec intelligunt. Carent enim quae scribunt isti viribus et vita; carent actu, carent affectu, carent indole, iacent, dormiunt, stertunt. Nihil ibi verum, nihil solidum, nihil efficax. «Non exprimis», inquit aliquis, «Ciceronem». Quid tum? non enim sum Cicero; me tamen, ut opinor, exprimo.

[…] Sed ut ad te redeam, Paule, quem penitus amo, cui multum debeo, cuius ingenio plurimum tribuo, quaeso, ne superstitione ista te alliges, ut nihil delectet quod tuum plane sit et ut oculos a Cicerone nunquam deicias. Sed cum Ciceronem, cum bonos alios multum diuque legeris, contriveris, edidiceris, concoxeris et rerum multarum cognitione pectus impleveris, ac iam componere aliquid ipse parabis, turn demum velim quod dicitur sine cortice nates, atque ipse tibi sis aliquando in consilio, sollicitudinemque illam morosam nimis et anxiam deponas effingendi tantummodo Ciceronem tuasque denique vires universas pericliteris. Nam qui tantum ridicula ista quae vocatis liniamenta contemplantur attoniti, nec ilia ipsa, mihi crede satis repraesentant, et impetum quodammodo retardant ingenii sui, currentique velut obstant et, ut utar plautino verbo, remoram faciunt. Sed ut bene currere non potest qui pedem ponere studet in alienis tantum vestigiis, ita nec bene scribere qui tamquam de praescripto non audet egredi. Postremo scias infelicis esse ingenii nihil a se promere, semper imitari.

[HIS] Aquellos que se dedican exclusivamente a la imitación parecen similares a un loro o a una urraca, pues pronuncian cosas que no comprenden. Carecen de la fuerza y la vitalidad necesarias; carecen de acción, carecen de emoción, carecen de personalidad; yacen, duermen, roncan. No hay en ellos nada verdadero, nada sólido, nada eficaz. «No logras expresar a Cicerón», dice alguien. ¿Y qué? No soy Cicerón; pero al menos me expresaré. […] Pero para volver a ti, Pablo, a quien amo profundamente, a quien debo mucho, a quien atribuyo un gran talento, te ruego que no te adhieras a esa superstición, para que nada te deleite que no sea exclusivamente tuyo y para que no seas como aquellos que nunca apartan los ojos de Cicerón. Sino que, cuando hayas leído mucho tiempo a Cicerón y a otros buenos autores, cuando los hayas desglosado, estudiado, asimilado y hayas llenado tu mente con el conocimiento de muchas cosas, y te prepares para componer algo por ti mismo, entonces desearía que fueras tú mismo el que, con esfuerzo, habla, que seas tú mismo alguna vez en tus decisiones, que te deshagas de esa preocupación excesiva y ansiosa por simplemente imitar a Cicerón y no pongas en peligro todas tus propias habilidades. Porque aquellos que contemplan con asombro esas ridiculeces que llaman 'rasgos' (liniamenta), créeme, no las representan adecuadamente, de alguna manera retrasan el ímpetu de su propio ingenio, parecen, usando una expresión de Plauto, obstruir a alguien que está corriendo y hacen que se detenga. Pero así como aquel que se esfuerza por poner el pie únicamente en las huellas de otros no puede correr bien, tampoco puede escribir bien aquel que no se atreve a salir de los límites preestablecidos. En conclusión, debes saber que es desafortunado no producir nada propio, y siempre imitar.

[woodsteingirl]

i like to keep a real line between fact and emotion when it comes to history like i can put emotion to it later but i want an Account first that doesn’t have noticeable and distracting authorial speculation

[unabashedqueenfury]

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Mary and Francis

Per mille volte ben trovata sia

Ipolita gentil, caro mio bene,

Viva speranza, dolce vita mia,

Deh guarda quel che a riveder ti viene;

Deh fagli udir la tuo dolce armonia,

Dà questo rifrigerio alle suo pene!

Se 'l tuo bel canto gli fara' sentire,

Allor allor contento è di morire.

(Agnolo Ambrogini named Poliziano, XII, "Per mille volte ben trovata sia", from "Rime", 1495)

[sforzesco]

Imagine the brigata laurenziana in your style, the dream

so the problem with the brigata laurenziana is that lorenzo de' medici is a medici and the medici family are my beloathed. I celebrate two dates on this blog: the ides of march and the pazzi conspiracy

despite that, I do appreciate lorenzo's influence and patronage with regards to poetry, and the drama regarding lorenzo and poliziano is extremely fun for me, but short of the complete literary works of lorenzo de' medici trans. guido a. guarino (I know it’s on jstor, but I don’t have access to it etc) suddenly appearing in my hands, I am sorry to report that this may have to remain a dream 😔