Download or read book Modern Poets written by Lilio Gregorio Giraldi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilio Gregorio Giraldi authored many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, modeled on Cicero’s Brutus, translated here into English for the first time. The work gives a panoramic view of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, concentrating above all on Italy.