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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Highly intelligent wit that made me smile more than once, moralistic satire in deep reading written by Batista in his own words "for enjoyment primarily". The text would require and in-depth review, but I'll simply accentuate my favorite part of the Book IV which is about Charon deciding to visit the land of mortals before planned effectuation of Jupiter's plan to destroy the world as a result of Momus' scheming. He is accompanied by a destitute philosopher, Gelastus - whom is an exemplary tragic hero strangled by the clash between his ethos and fortune, being a thoroughly good man he ended up even without an Obol to safely be accounted among the Shades of the Dead. Gelastus gets a chance from Charon, as his companion in the journeys among the lands of the living and in deep conversations that ensue between them Batista contains great wisdom. Momus girlfriend, Mischief, may be compared to the Goddess Eris by every probability. I also adored the comparison of state-management to a ship-state in which any form of corruption or putting ahead one's own interest makes everyone else drown in the end. ( ) Highly intelligent wit that made me smile more than once, moralistic satire in deep reading written by Batista in his own words "for enjoyment primarily". The text would require and in-depth review, but I'll simply accentuate my favorite part of the Book IV which is about Charon deciding to visit the land of mortals before planned effectuation of Jupiter's plan to destroy the world as a result of Momus' scheming. He is accompanied by a destitute philosopher, Gelastus - whom is an exemplary tragic hero strangled by the clash between his ethos and fortune, being a thoroughly good man he ended up even without an Obol to safely be accounted among the Shades of the Dead. Gelastus gets a chance from Charon, as his companion in the journeys among the lands of the living and in deep conversations that ensue between them Batista contains great wisdom. Momus girlfriend, Mischief, may be compared to the Goddess Eris by every probability. I also adored the comparison of state-management to a ship-state in which any form of corruption or putting ahead one's own interest makes everyone else drown in the end. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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