Francesco Filelfo and Francesco Sforza: Critical Edition of Filelfo's 'Sphortias', 'De Genuensium deditione', 'Oratio parentalis', and His Polemical Exchange with Galeotto Marzio

After surviving an attempt on his life, possibly ordered by Cosimo de' Medici, Filelfo found temporary refuge in Siena, before migrating at last to Milan, where he spent the remaining years of his long life (1439-1481).Along with his university teaching, Filelfo acted as a sometime cultural impresario, translator, and prolific producer of occasional oratory and verse.Along with the Sphortias, De Keyser's volume appropriately contains a new, improved edition of Galeotto Marzio's initial, rather polite criticism of Filelfo's Latinity and versification, followed by Filelfo's disparaging reply and then Marzio's second and much more violent attack on the poem and its author.