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Latin Poetry

Jacopo Sannazaro author Michael C J Putnam translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Published:30th Jun '09

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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 Virgil. In addition to his epic The Virgin Birth (1526), which earned him the title of “the Christian Virgil,” 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.

'A marvelous new publication project...has made it vastly easier than ever before to appreciate the Latin literature of the Italian Renaissance as a whole...The most ambitious and innovative writings of the Italian Renaissance, in prose and verse, in fields that range from comedy to metaphysics and beyond - works that for centuries only scholars have been able to read - have suddenly become accessible to readers who know only English..."The I Tatti" series is already beginning to transform the study and teaching of Renaissance culture'. Anthony Grafton, New York review of books.

ISBN: 9780674034068

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592 pages