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Latin Poetry
Jacopo Sannazaro
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Description for Latin Poetry
Hardback. 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 Academia Pontaniana. This book contains the English translation of Sannazaro's poetry in Latin. Translator(s): Putnam, Michael C. J. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 34. Weight in Grams: 724.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
724g
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674034068
SKU
V9780674034068
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About Jacopo Sannazaro
Michael C. J. Putnam is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics Emeritus at Brown University.
Reviews for Latin Poetry
'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 - ... Read more