Books by Francesco Filelfo

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF's heritage funds.

Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile-poverty and loss of reputation-and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language.

Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His Odes constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity.