Poliziano

thumb|Angelo Poliziano Poliziano (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known by his nickname Poliziano (anglicized as Politian; Latin: Politianus), was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology. Quotes Non exprimis, aliquis inquit, Ciceronem. Quid tum? Non enim sum Cicero; me tamen, ut opinor, exprimo. Someone might object, "But you do not express yourself like Cicero". What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self. Epistolae 8, 16. Quoted in Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance (1995) by Martin L. McLaughlin, p. 203. Quotes about Poliziano To understand Italian Renaissance Renaissance Italy, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Politian are just as valuable as Pasquale Villari Villari and Sismondi. William Watkin Davies, Introduction vii–xxiv How to Read History Doran's modern readers' bookshelf / Hodder and Stoughton's people's library George H. Doran Company 1924 https://books.google.com/books?id=u5EBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR23 (quote from p. xxiii) External links Category:1454 births Category:1494 deaths Category:Gay poets Category:Humanists Category:Poets from Italy Category:Latin authors Category:Translators from Italy Category:People from Tuscany Category:Medieval LGBT people Category:Translators of Homer