La Giostra di Giuliano de Medici..., ca. 1495–1500, Printed book with woodcut illustrations, 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 x 3/8 in. (19.3 x 13.9 x 1 cm), Books, The humanist scholar Politian, a protégé of Lorenzo de' Medici, was a leader in the use of the Tuscan dialect in poetry. His most famous poem, composed to commemorate the joust in 1475 of Lorenzo's brother Giuliano, is, among other things, a compendium of mythological tales drawn from Ovid and other sources
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