Selecta poemata Italorum qui latine scripserunt

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THIS IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF ITALIAN NEO-LATIN VERSE PUBLISHED BY POPE IN 1740. IT HAS ABOUT 500 DUODECIMO PAGES. iT GAS BEEN EXPANDED FROM AN EARLIER ANTHOLOGY ATTRIBUTED TO ATTERBURY TO OVER TWICE ITS ORIGINAL SIZE. SOME 25 POETS ARE REPRESENTED, THE MOST IMPORTANT BEING SANNAZARIUS, VIDA, FRACASTORIUS, POLITIAN, ANTONIUS FLAMINIUS, PALEARIUS, PONTANUS. THERE IS MUCH OF GREAT BEAUTY AND AMAZING LATIN VIRTUOSITY. MAYNARD MACK THOUGHT IT HELD GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR THE STUDY OF POPE, WHO COULD QUOTE POLITIAN AT AN EARLY AGE. LITTLE READ, THOUGH!