Pontano

But the names of Palmieri and Pontano, and even of Carneades and Sextus Empiricus, have left little mark on European thought.

A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli Berlin, Isaiah 1971

Pontano, and others sometimes show a poetical perfec - tion and a beauty of imagery that is rare in other kinds of humanistic poetry.

HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

It must, however, be said that four hundred years earlier Pontano had expressed this same erotic unity far more robustly and wholesomely than Schlegel, though the Latin verse in which he wrote, fresh and vital as it is, remained without influence.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

There was Pontano, the founder of the Academy of Naples, who was busy writing his Latin eclogues on the myrtle bowers of Baiae and the orange groves of Sorrento.

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

Pontano, crept into the chronicle of Matarazzo, and survived in the histories of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

Angelo Poliziano, and Pontano, all of whom owed their start in life to the murder of their respective fathers by assassins; to

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

Medici and Poliziano wrote for the Florentine populace; and though in form and artistic intention they differ from the Latin verse of that period, their view of life is not dissimilar to that of a Pontano or a

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

Pontano, who was Ferdinand's secretary, told a different tale.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

Renaissance with vigour, and deserve to be ranked with the Latin poetry of Poliziano, Bembo, and Pontano.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

During the half-century in which so many Italian princes succumbed to the dagger of their subjects, he, in Naples, where, according to Pontano, 'nothing was cheaper than the life of a man,' walked up and down unarmed and unattended.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866