Miscellanies, Volume 1An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year Angelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." The poet's Miscellanies, including a "first century" published in 1489 and a "second century" unfinished at his death, constitute the most innovative contribution to classical philology of the Renaissance. Each chapter is a