Authors 19th-21st centuries
Vlavianos, Charis / Βλαβιανός, Χάρης (b. 1957)
Renaissance
- Title
- Renaissance
- Author
- Vlavianos, Haris (Vlavianos, Charis)
- Translator
- Barbeito, Patricia Felisa
- Other contributor
- Atwood, Margaret
- Page count
- ix, 183 p.
- Genre
- Poetry
- Material type
- Book
- Place of publication
- New York, New York
- Publisher
- World Poetry Press
- Date of publication
- 2026
- Editorial note
- Cf. publisher's site at https://worldpoetrybooks.com/books/renaissance
- Other note
- “Thirty-six quixotic poem-portraits of Renaissance figures to remind us that the past is always present”.
- Text is bilingual?
- Yes
- ISBNs
- 1954218427 pbk
- 9781954218420 pbk
- Last updated
- 2026-03-21
Original Greek text
- Title
- Αναγέννηση
- Collection
- Αναγέννηση
- Place of publication
- Αθήνα
- Publisher
- Εκδόσεις Πατάκη
- Date of publication
- 2024
- Original record
Original record
Haris Vlavianos. Renaissance. Translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito, with a preface by Margaret Atwood. New York, NY: World Poetry Press, 2026. ix, 183 p. [Bilingual edition]. <Poetry>
ISBN 1954218427; 9781954218420 pbk
Cf. publisher's site at https://worldpoetrybooks.com/books/renaissance
“Thirty-six quixotic poem-portraits of Renaissance figures to remind us that the past is always present”.
Contents: Margaret Atwood, Preface: “Dialogues with the Dead” (pp. vii-ix).
'Αναγέννηση' / 'Renaissance': 36 Portrait-Poems of artists, poets, scholars, politicians, philosophers, witch hunters, clerics, inquisitors, actors, and musicians (pp. 10-165):
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) (pp. 16-19); Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) (pp. 20-21); Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) (pp. 22-25); Louise Labé (c. 1524-1566) (pp. 26-29); Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) (pp. 30-31); Giotto di Bondone (1267?-1337) (pp. 32-35); Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) (pp. 36-41); Lorenzo Ghiberti (c. 1378-1455) (pp. 42-43); Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) (pp. 44-49); Heinrich Kramer (c. 1430-1505) (pp. 50-53); Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569) (pp. 54-57); Arcangelo Tuccaro (1535-1602) (pp. 58-61); Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625) (pp. 62-65); Pietro Torrigiano (1472-1528) (pp. 66-69); William Cecil (1520-1598) (pp. 70-71); Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) (pp. 72-75); Isotta Nogarola (c. 1418-1466) (pp. 76-79); Filippo Lippi (c. 1406-1469) (pp. 80-85); Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536) (pp. 86-89); Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) (pp. 90-93); Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) (pp. 94-97); Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) (pp. 98-101); Luca Signorelli (c. 1450-1523) (pp. 102-103); Tommaso “Fedro” Inghirami (1470-1515) (pp. 104-111); Vittorio Colonna (1492?-1547) (pp. 112-115); Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) (pp. 116-119); Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521) (pp. 120-121); Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) (pp. 122-127); Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) (pp. 128-133); Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c. 1527-1593) (pp. 134-135); Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) (pp. 136-139); Pope Paul IV – Born Gian Pietro Carafa (1476-1559) (pp. 140-145); Tiziano (c. 1488-1576) (pp. 146-151); Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) (pp. 152-157); Federico da Montefeltro (1422-1482) (pp. 158-161); Alessandra Strozzi (c. 1407-1471) (pp. 162-165).
Bibliographic Note (pp. 167-168); Translator’s Note: “Renaissance: Haris Vlavianos’s Speculum of Words” (pp. 169-179); Acknowledgments (p. 181); [On Vlavianos, Barbeito, Atwood] (p. 183).
Αναγέννηση (Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2024). The original Greek edition includes sixteen illustrations rendered in black and white.