Luigi Pulci

Luigi Pulci (15 August 1432 – 11 November 1484) was an Italian diplomat and poet best known for his Morgante, an epic and parodistic poem about a giant who is converted to Christianity by Orlando and follows the knight in many adventures.

Quotes

  • Know that this theory is false; his bark
    The daring mariner shall urge far o'er
    The western wave, a smooth and level plain,
    Albeit the earth is fashion'd like a wheel.
    Man was in ancient days of grosser mould,
    And Hercules might blush to learn how far
    Beyond the limits he had vainly set,
    The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way.
    Men shall descry another hemisphere,
    Since to one common centre all things tend;
    So earth, by curious mystery divine
    Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres.
    At our Antipodes are cities, states,
    And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore.
    But see, the Sun speeds on his western path
    To glad the nations with expected light.
    • Il Morgante Maggiore (1485), canto 25, sts. 229, 230
    • "Italian Narrative Poetry", North American Review, no. 45 (October, 1824), pp. 349–50
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