Momus by Alberti, Leon Battista

Momus

Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and universal man...
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Author: Leon Battista Alberti
Format: Hardcover
Language: Latin
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Momus by Alberti, Leon Battista

Momus

CHF 78.11

Momus

CHF 78.11
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
Format: Hardcover
Language: Latin
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. The possible contemporary resonance of Alberti's satire--read variously as a humanist roman-à-clef and as a veiled mockery of the mid-Quattrocento papacy--is among its most intriguing aspects. While his more famous books on architecture, painting, and family life have long been regarded as indispensable to a study of Renaissance culture, Momus has recently attracted increasing attention from scholars as a work anticipating the realism of Machiavelli and the satiric wit of Erasmus. 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.

Author: Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 06/15/2003
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.44w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780674007543
Language: Latin

About the Author
Knight, Sarah: - Sarah Knight is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester.Brown, Virginia: - Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

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