Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile--poverty and loss of reputation--and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language.
The book is a facsimile reprint of an original antiquarian work, preserving its historical significance despite potential imperfections like marks and flawed pages. This reprint aims to protect and promote cultural literature, ensuring accessibility through high-quality modern editions that remain faithful to the original text.
Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance. The Odes, completed in the mid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity and are a major literary achievement. This title offers an English translation of this book.