Ugolino Verino

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...