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Musurus’ Homeric Ode to Plato and his Requests to Pope Leo X
- Source :
- Akroterion; 33; 63; 0303-1896; 60; ~Akroterion~33~63~~~0303-1896~~60~~
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Contains fulltext : 156482pub.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)<br />This article provides the first philological analysis and interpretation of the ode to Plato written by Marcus Musurus in 1513 in Venice and published as a dedicatory poem in the editio princeps of the works of Plato. Musurus asks pope Leo X to found a Greek academy in Rome and start a crusade against the Ottoman empire to liberate Greece. The article includes the first modern translation of the entire poem since Roscoe (1805).
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- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- Akroterion; 33; 63; 0303-1896; 60; ~Akroterion~33~63~~~0303-1896~~60~~
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1283996721
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource