Between Byzantium and Rome, between Autobiography and Literary Monument: the Humanist epistolarium of Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481). KU Leuven
In the study of 15th-century Italian Renaissance humanism many illustrious names of artists, literators, scholars and philosophers, often to be connected to flourishing cities and magnificent Renaissance courts in Florence, Venice, Rome, Ferrara or Milan, sound familiar and well-known. Among them, the less familiar name of the flamboyant Milanese humanist courtier Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), though an exilic writer and a persona non grata to ...