Fiammetta. Paradise

Name: Fiammetta. Paradise
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By Ugolino Verino

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Fiammetta. Paradise showcases Ugolino Verino's remarkable blend of classical Latin poetry with Renaissance humanism. The book contains Verino's celebrated three-book cycle of love poems to his muse Fiammetta, drawing inspiration from Propertius, Ovid's Amores, and Petrarch. Additionally, the work features Paradise, a visionary poem where Verino embarks on a celestial journey through Heaven and the afterlife, guided by Cosimo de'Medici. This section pays homage to Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's masterworks, and Cicero's Dream of Scipio.
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This collection appeals to readers interested in Renaissance literature, Latin poetry, and classical influences within early modern humanist thought. Scholars of Florentine culture and admirers of Lorenzo de'Medici's circle will also find it compelling.

Ugolino Verino was a principal Latin poet in the Florence of Lorenzo de’Medici and a leading figure in the revival of ancient Latin elegy. He forged a distinctive voice in a three-book cycle of poems in honor of his lady-love, Fiametta. His Paradise is a vision-poem in which he tours Heaven and the afterlife.

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Ugolino Verino (1438–1516) was among the principal Latin poets in the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici. A student of Cristoforo Landino, whose youthful love poems Verino imitated, Verino was a leading figure in the Renaissance revival of ancient Latin elegy.

He blended Propertius, Ovid's Amores, and elements of Petrarch's lyric style to forge a distinctive poetic voice in a three-book cycle of poems in honour of his lady-love, Fiammetta. His Paradise, by contrast, is a vision-poem indebted to Vergil's Aeneid, Dante, and Cicero's Dream of Scipio, in which Ugolino is taken on a tour of Heaven and the afterlife by the recently deceased Cosimo de' Medici.