Galatea (Raphael)the building, a series never completed which was inspired by the "Stanze per la giostra " of the poet Angelo Poliziano. In Greek mythology, the beautiful
The Birth of Venusa description of a relief of the event in Poliziano's poem the Stanze per la giostra , commemorating a Medici joust in 1475, which may also have influenced
Lorenzo de' MediciSimon and Schuster. p. 110. Davie, Mark (1989). "Luigi Pulci's Stanze per la Giostra : Verse and Prose Accounts of a Florentine Joust of 1469". Italian
Literary toposcharacter of Dido in Virgil's Aeneid); warlike love (see the work Stanze per la giostra by Giuliano de 'Medici by Angelo Poliziano), love as homage (see
Polizianoworks are: his most highly regarded work in Italian, Stanze per la giostra [it], or La Giostra , written upon Giuliano de' Medici's victory in a tournament