John of Garland's 'Integumenta Ovidii'

Text, Translation, and Commentary

Kyle Gervais editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Medieval Institute Publications

Published:21st Oct '22

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The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii (“Allegories on Ovid”) in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. The edition presents the original Latin text with facing-page modern English translation. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John’s condensed allegories in their medieval context. Textual notes discuss the various difficulties in the transmitted text of the poem, and offer several improvements on the texts of the older editions.

ISBN: 9781580445276

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm

Weight: 478g

220 pages