Download or read book Humanist Tragedies written by and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a representative sampling of Latin drama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. The five tragedies included in this volume were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-humanist sources.