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Leon
Battista Alberti
English translation by Sarah Knight, Latin text
edited
by Virginia Brown and Sarah Knight.
Momus.
Cambridge: Harvard
University
Press, 2003.
I Tatti Renaissance Library no. 8.
446pp.
Hardback
ISBN 0674007549.
Publisher's
recommended price $29.95/£19.95/€27.70
Momus
is the
most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous
humanist-scientist-artist
and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy,
written
around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus,
the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. Alberti deploys his
singular
erudition and wit to satirize subjects from court life and politics to
philosophy and intellectuals, from grand architectural designs to human
and divine folly. The possible contemporary resonance of Alberti's
satire
- read variously as a humanist roman-à-clef and as a veiled
mockery
of the mid-Quattrocento papacy - is among its most intriguing aspects.
While his more famous books on architecture, painting, and family life
have long been regarded as indispensable to a study of Renaissance
culture,
Momus has recently attracted increasing attention from scholars as a
work
anticipating the realism of Machiavelli and the satiric wit of Erasmus.
This edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on the
two
earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes
the
first full translation into English.
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