Renaissance Quarterly, March 22nd, 2004
Giovanni Pontano. De sermone.
Ed. Alessandra Mantovani. Piccola biblioteca letteraria 11. Rome: Carocci editore, 2002. 494 pp. [euro] 26.50. ISBN: 88-430-2410-8.
Alessandra Mantovani, editor and translator of the De Sermone by the humanist, poet, and public figure, Giovanni Giovano Pontano (1429-1502), provides readers with an admirably translated Italian text of this Renaissance classic with facing pages in Latin. The translation is derived from the critical Latin edition of the De Sermone by S. Lupi and A. Risicato in 1954 at Lugano (Thesauri Mundi).
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