Eclogues : Garden of the Hesperides / Giovanni Gioviano Pontano ; edited and translated by Luke Roman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503, author.

Contributor:

Roman, Luke, editor, translator.

Series:

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 94.

I Tatti renaissance library ; ITRL 94

Standardized Title:

Eclogues (Compilation)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Pastoral poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Pastoral poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Country life--Italy--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Country life.

Gardening--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Italy.

Genre:

Early works.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxx, 285 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Garden of the Hesperides

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Text in Latin with English translation; introduction and notes in English.

Summary:

"Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) was the leading humanist of Quattrocento Naples, the head of the Neapolitan Academy, and a brilliant humanist Latin poet. He wrote Latin poetry in a range of genres, including didactic, lyric, pastoral, and elegy. He also wrote prose treatises and philosophical dialogues. This volume contains the text and translation of his Eclogues (Eclogae) and Garden of the Hesperides (De hortis Hesperidum), two poetic works written in dactylic hexameters in imitation of ancient pastoral and didactic poetry, respectively, and in particular, of Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics. The Eclogues consist of six poems of varying length on diverse topics set in different places, but predominantly in the Neapolitan countryside. The Garden of the Hesperides is a horticultural didactic poem on gardening and the cultivation of citrus trees"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Eclogae. Latin (Roman)

Container of: Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. Eclogae. English (Roman)

Container of: Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. De hortis Hesperidum. Latin (Roman)

Container of: Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. De hortis Hesperidum. English (Roman)

ISBN:

9780674274099

0674274091

OCLC:

1310787678