Disticha Sancti Ambrosii / introduzione, testo criticamente riveduto, traduzione e commento, Francesco Lubian.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lubian, Francesco, author, editor, translator.

Contributor:

• Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397, attributed name.

Series:

• Corpus Christianorum. Lingua patrum ; 10.
• Corpus Christianorum. Lingua Patrum ; X

Language:

• Italian
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.
• Christian poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
• Christian poetry, Latin.
• Christian poetry, Early--History and criticism.
• Christian poetry, Early.

Genre:

• Poetry.
• Couplets.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols Publishers, 2017.

Language Note:

Text of the distichs in Latin with Italian translation on facing pages; critical matter in Italian.

Summary:

"The first edition with introduction, translation and commentary of the 21 Disticha attributed to Ambrose of Milan. This book represents the first monographic work dedicated to the Disticha attributed to Ambrose of Milan, a cycle of twenty-one hexametrical distichs whose aim is the description and explanation of pictured narratives from the Old and the New Testament. After an Introduction which enlightens all aspects of the epigrammatic cycle (transmission, paternity, debts towards previous Latin poetry, Fortleben, hypothesis of reconstruction), the author provides a revised text, a new Italian translation, and a detailed philological, textual, exegetical and iconographic commentary to the Disticha."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

• Includes, on pages 104-107, a critical edition of the Disticha Sancti Ambrosii.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

• Container of: Disticha Sancti Ambrosii. Latin (Lubian)
• Container of: Disticha Sancti Ambrosii. Italian (Lubian)

ISBN:

• 9782503571249
• 2503571247

OCLC:

990748916