Which didactic philosophical poem about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism is the most celebrated find of the Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini?
ca193582e41fc82d9ebf5f08d897d459
Poggio Bracciolini Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (11 February 1380 – 30 October 1459), best known simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early humanist. He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering a great number of classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated find was "De rerum natura", the only surviving work by Lucretius.
dd17e794eb6d89d3638fb547804f3c1f
Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus ( ; 15 October 99 BC – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the didactic philosophical poem "De rerum natura" about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as "On the Nature of Things". Lucretius has been credited with originating the concept of the three-age system which was formalised from 1834 by C. J. Thomsen.
2dcab63dc366299364d0b59ab88c49ff
Eberhard of Béthune Eberhard of Béthune (also known as Everard of Béthune, Évrard de Béthune, Éverard de Béthune, Ebrardus Bethuniensis or Bithuniensis, Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Eberard, Ebrard, Ebrad; d. c. 1212) was a Flemish grammarian of the early thirteenth century, from Arras. He was the author of "Graecismus", a popular Latin grammatical poem, dated to c. 1212. The name came from a short section on the Greek language. His "Laborintus" is "an elaborate and critical treatise on poetry and pedagogics"; it is also known as "De Miseriis Rectorum Scholarum".
36f17719c0bf31508f86f0d8f12ba99b
Astronomica (Manilius) The Astronomica (] or ]), also known as the Astronomicon, is a Latin didactic poem written in hexameters and divided into five books about celestial phenomena. The "Astronomica" was penned c. AD 10– 20 by a Roman poet whose name was likely Marcus Manilius; little is known of Manilius, and although there is evidence that the "Astronomica" was read by many other Roman writers, no surviving works quote him. The poem was rediscovered c. 1416– 1417 by the Italian humanist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini, who had a copy made from which the modern text derives.
af02eb743edbadfc6acad6a9654c3d4d
Dominic of Flanders Dominic of Flanders (Latin: Dominicus de Flandria , French: "Dominique de Flandre" ) (ca. 1425–1479) was a French-Flemish Dominican philosopher and Scholastic author, known to have been a renowned Thomist. His commentaries on Aristotle and on Thomas Aquinas were frequently printed, the most famous being his commentary on Aristotle’s "Metaphysics". This "Commentaria" is commonly known to have been dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici.
cc5e4a3a72ec5c90098d8569d25159e6
Vasugupta Vasugupta (~ 800 – 850 CE) was the author of the "Shiva Sutras", an important text of the Advaita tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, also called "Trika" (sometimes called "Trika Yoga").
bcf1ba0844ff89acf18ae2c079c6a357
Callinus Callinus (Ancient Greek: Καλλῖνος , "Kallinos") was an ancient Greek elegiac poet who lived in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative of the genre of martial exhortation elegy in which Tyrtaeus also specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to have composed. Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor of the elegiac couplet by some ancient critics.
150e56ec0714f94ed6aed3adf69f0361
Sebastiano Bagolino Sebastiano Bagolino was a Latin poet and scholar.
ba35d61f9b119819d1d57d40fa2b0f7b
Oedipodea The Oedipodea (Ancient Greek: Οἰδιπόδεια ) is a lost poem of the Theban cycle, a part of the Epic Cycle (Επικὸς Κύκλος ). The poem was about 6,600 verses long and the authorship was credited by ancient authorities to Cinaethon (Κιναίθων ), a barely known poet who lived probably in Sparta. Only three short fragments and one testimonium survived.
c6aa30e4453e9638a64bcd1596c12226
Leonidas of Tarentum Leonidas of Tarentum ( ; Doric Greek: Λεωνίδας ὁ Ταραντῖνος ) was an epigrammatist and lyric poet. He lived in Italy in the third century B.C. at Tarentum, on the coast of Calabria (then Magna Graecia). Over a hundred of his epigrams are present in the Greek Anthology compiled in the 10th and 14th centuries. Most of his poems are dedicatory or sepulchral.
b3aaf164c1fb449a6fbb6077c0fadcb0
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", as well as the major prose work "Biographia Literaria". His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism.
802e854ec967a7b89dcc36e522989840
Quintus Sextius Quintus Sextius the Elder ( ; Latin: "Quinti Sextii Patris" ; fl. c. 50 BC) was a Roman philosopher, whose philosophy combined Pythagoreanism with Stoicism. His praises were frequently celebrated by Seneca.
d898ab33ce9c75b104578f78dc7aed66
Antonio Pucci (poet) Antonio Pucci (c. 1310 – 1388) was a Florentine bellfounder, self-taught as a versifier, who wrote his collection, "Libro di varie storie" ("Book of Various Tales"), using a popular dialect for a popular audience. In his "Centiloquio" he set out in terzinas ninety-one cantos' worth of chronicle from Giovanni Villani's "Cronaca." In "Le proprietà di Mercato Vecchio" he praised, again in terzinas, the incomparable street life of Florence's crowded market piazza. In poems he could blame or praise women with equal force, a favorite medieval trope. He composed "cantari" in the eight-line stanzas called "ottava rima," telling the subjects of courtly romance in a fast-paced narrative, with an undertone of subversive populist skepticism that undercut the very conventions that the stories embraced, full of vivid contemporary color and pious sentiment, and perhaps he declaimed them in the public squares: "La Reina d'Oriente", "Gismirante", "Apollonio di Tiro," "Brito di Brettagna", "Madonna Lionessa."
6bece3381235dc2de250a5a4d27822ac
Bugarštica Bugarštica (] ] ) is a form of epic and ballad poetry, which was popular among Serbs and Croats until the 18th century, sung in long verses of mostly fifteen and sixteen syllables with a caesura after the seventh and eighth syllable, respectively. They include the oldest known recorded epic poems, written down in the 15th century.
24fa683ca25d4646767ef25161129b85
Anugita Anugita is an ancient Sanskrit text embedded in the Book 14 (Ashvamedhika Parva) of the Hindu epic the "Mahabharata". "Anugita" literally means an "Anu" ("continuation, alongside, subordinate to") of "Gita". The original was likely composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE, but its versions probably modified through about the 15th- or 16th-century. It is regarded by Hindus as an appendix to the "Bhagavad Gita" found in Book 6. Like it, the "Anugita" is one of the treatises on Dharma (ethics, moral precepts). Anugita is, in part, a retelling of some of the ethical premises of the "Bhagavad Gita" through legends and fables, instead of the distilled philosophy found in the "Bhagavad Gita".
b878ff8309d76ca30377ab1f84eae08e
Aśvaghoṣa Aśvaghoṣa or Ashvaghosha (/'əɕʋə'gʰoːʂə/ ;  80 – c. 150 CE ) was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a Brahmin family. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa. He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivalled the contemporary Ramayana. Whereas much of Buddhist literature prior to the time of Aśvaghoṣa had been composed in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Aśvaghoṣa wrote in Classical Sanskrit.
54a0f3495e5f96365bc5a01093090c89
The Over-Soul "The Over-Soul" is an acclaimed essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. With the human soul as its overriding subject, several general themes are treated: (1) the existence and nature of the human soul; (2) the relationship between the soul and the personal ego; (3) the relationship of one human soul to another; and (4) the relationship of the human soul to God. Influence of Eastern religions, including Vedantism, is plainly evident, but the essay also develops ideas long present in the Western tradition, e.g., in the works of Plato, Plutarch, and Neoplatonists like Plotinus and Proclus – all of whose writings Emerson read extensively throughout his career – and Emanuel Swedenborg.
d294455fb475e813ff34da3480572b5a
Francesco Bracciolini Francesco Bracciolini (November 26, 1566 – August 31, 1645) was an Italian poet.
36c11e9fea3667f431bb2c6e8e83d098
Apophthegmatum opus Apophthegmatum opus is a translation of Plutarch's "Apophthegmata" by Erasmus of Rotterdam, a collection of apophthegms from classical antiquity. Many classical apophthegms repeated ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Alexander the Great. According to Speroni, "Apophthegmatum opus" is one of "the most monumental collections of classical apophthegms… ever assembled…" Here are a few samples of Erasmus' apophthegms:
70883716a1e57d87a3a1c65d72b01919
Apollonius of Rhodes Apollonius of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος "Apollṓnios Rhódios"; Latin: "Apollonius Rhodius" ; fl. first half of 3rd century BCE), was an ancient Greek author, best known for the "Argonautica", an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. The poem is one of the few extant examples of the epic genre and it was both innovative and influential, providing Ptolemaic Egypt with a "cultural mnemonic" or national "archive of images", and offering the Latin poets Virgil and Gaius Valerius Flaccus a model for their own epics. His other poems, which survive only in small fragments, concerned the beginnings or foundations of cities, such as Alexandria and Cnidusplaces of interest to the Ptolemies, whom he served as a scholar and librarian at the Library of Alexandria. A literary dispute with Callimachus, another Alexandrian librarian/poet, is a topic much discussed by modern scholars since it is thought to give some insight into their poetry, although there is very little evidence that there ever was such a dispute between the two men. In fact almost nothing at all is known about Apollonius and even his connection with Rhodes is a matter for speculation. Once considered a mere imitator of Homer, and therefore a failure as a poet, his reputation has been enhanced by recent studies, with an emphasis on the special characteristics of Hellenistic poets as scholarly heirs of a long literary tradition writing at a unique time in history.
dc02a3ec8cae1348fd8dc083f0fdc701
Viriato Trágico (poem) Viriato Trágico is an epic poem by Portuguese author Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas.
55fc3ba910ae3acc29e2827445cb050a
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali are 196 Indian sutras (aphorisms). The "Yoga Sutras" were compiled prior to 400 CE by Sage Patanjali, taking materials about yoga from older traditions. The "Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali" was the most translated ancient Indian text in the medieval era, having been translated into about forty Indian languages and two non-Indian languages: Old Javanese and Arabic. The text fell into obscurity for nearly 700 years from the 12th to 19th century, and began to regain popularity in late 19th century due to the efforts of Swami Vivekananda, the Theosophical Society and others. It gained prominence again as a comeback classic in the 20th century.