Francesco Filelfo's 'Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii' and the Rhetoric of early modern Consolation Literature. KU Leuven
When on the first of January 1461 Jacopo Antonio Marcello’s eight-year-old son Valerio died, prominent humanists produced consoling essays and poems for the boy’s father. The most important of these writings was Francesco Filelfo’s “Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii” (“Consolation of J.A. Marcello on the death of his son Valerio”), a consolation of more than 30,000 words, which combines portraits of and ...