The Italian poet Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), or Politian, wrote works in both Latin and Italian. Although he considered himself a humanist, he advocated free artistic creation, unencumbered by reliance on the great classical writers of antiquity....

From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance, by Peter Godman. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 366 pp. $62.50 U.S. (cloth). The volume is an in-depth analysis of Florentine humanism at the turn of the sixteenth century...

The author examines the influence of Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino on "Le stanze per la giostra," a poem written in 1476 by Angelo Poliziano. Nec tamen Aligerum fraudarim hoc munere Dantem, Per styga per stellas mediique per ardua montis, Pulchra Beatricis...

Scientists have exhumed the Renaissance-era remains of two intellectuals who belonged to Florence's powerful Medici family court, in an effort to learn more about their lives and deaths.The 15th century remains of humanist philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and writer Angelo Ambrogini _ better known...