Before him artists had, indeed, painted figures with a landscape background, but the perfect blend of Nature and human nature was his achievement.

The blending of verse and prose is a happy expedient.

The solos were not particularly wonderful, but the beautiful blending of the voices in the Pyrenean part-songs was a very great treat, and the sounds, floating deliciously away on the soft evening air, could be heard like some whispering echo for a long distance.

This blending of luxuriance and delicacy is the characteristic quality of Poliziano's and Lorenzo's poetry.