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 | #310410 in Books |  2003-06-15 |  2003-05-07 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 |  8.10 x1.09 x6.44l,1.21 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great book|By HalleB|Wonderful piece of Renaissance literature, darkly funny, and very interesting. Unlike Medieval Latin, if you're well versed in Classical you can jump right in to this. It'll take time to get used to, of course, same as all authors, and Alberti does have a quite distinctive method of writing which gives this work a very original feel, and which also can make| |The sparkling translation, by Sarah Knight, frequently substitutes English colloquialisms for a more formal diction...The facing page's original text allows readers equipped with various levels of Latin--rusty or merely lightly oxidized--to follow the great su

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 design...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Momus (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)   |  Leon Battista Alberti. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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