9 December 2008.
The Language of Love in the Italian Renaissance
Philippe de Montebello
Isabella Rossellini
Poetry and art were inextricably linked in the Renaissance, and never more so than when the subject was love. Artists were inspired by the language of Boccaccio, Petrarch, Pietro Bembo, and Pietro Aretino, and poets in turn looked to the ravishing paintings of Botticelli, Palma il Vecchio, and Titian for their imagery. Metropolitan Museum Director Philippe de Montebello and actress Isabella Rossellini will read in Italian, English, and French from great love poems and dialogues on the nature of love, as well as from the immensely popular bawdy verses of the period.
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