Author(s): Monika FRAZER-IMREGH

Title: „KI REMÉLHET MAGÁNAK NAGYOBB ISTENI SEGÍTSÉGET?” – POLIZIANO LEVELE PONTANÓHOZ

Source: Sz. Simon (ed.): 12th International Conference of J. Selye University. Language and Literacy Section. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-376-1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/3761.2020.57

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2020, 57-70

Published on-line: 2020

Language: hu

Abstract: ‘Who can more expect for himself divine aid?’: Poliziano’s letter of consolation to Pontano This paper includes Angelo Poliziano’s letter’s Latin text and its translation into Hungarian written in 1494 for Gioviano Pontano on the occasion of King Ferrante’s death. After an introduction about the main characters of this letter and a brief summary of the histrorical situation, the article focuses on Poliziano’s style. In writing this ideal consolation letter he certainly followed Cicero’s Orator, but also Quintilianus’s Institutio oratoria, which was recently rediscovered. Poliziano’s wittyness is that the letter seems to be more of a praise (or self-praise) than that of a comfort, because in Naples the tutor Pontano could see his ex-pupil stepping on the throne, just like in Florence Poliziano’s ex-pupil Piero de’ Medici followed Lorenzo il Magnifico in the power.

Keywords: Angelo Poliziano, Gioviano Pontano, King Ferrante I, rhetorics, consolation, Cicero, Quintilianus, humanism, royal pupils

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