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Latin poetry / Jacopo Sannazaro ; translated by Michael C. J. Putnam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530.
- Series:
- I Tatti Renaissance library ; 38.
- The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 38
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English & Latin
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Translations into English.
- Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Translations into English.
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Poetry.
- Mary.
- Jesus Christ--Poetry.
- Jesus Christ.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 562 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Texts in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction in English.
- Summary:
- Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Accademia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having written, in Italian, the first pastoral romance in European literature, the "Arcadia" (1504). But after this early work, Sannazaro devoted himself entirely to Latin poetry modeled on his beloved Vergil. In addition to his epic "The Virgin Birth" (1526), which earned him the title of "the Christian Vergil," he also composed "Piscatory Eclogues, " an innovative adaption of the eclogue form, as well as elegies, epigrams, and a number of shorter works. This volume contains the first complete English translation of all of Sannazaro's poetry in Latin, accompanied by extensive notes.
- Contents:
- The Virgin Birth
- Lamentation on the death of Christ
- Piscatory eclogues
- Fragment of an eclogue
- The willows
- Elegies
- Epigrams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-526) and index.
- Contains:
- Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530. De partu Virginis. English & Latin.
- Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530. De morte Christi Domini ad mortales lamentatio. English & Latin.
- Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530. Piscatoriae eclogae. English & Latin.
- Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530. Salices. English & Latin.
- ISBN:
- 9780674034068
- 0674034066
- OCLC:
- 261175558
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