Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Dante and Giovanni Del Virgilio
Author: Dante AlighieriFrancesco Benci's Quinque Martyres
Author: Paul G. GwynnePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004356614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
In 1583, five Jesuit brothers set out with the intention of founding a new church and mission in India. Their dream was almost immediately, and brutally, terminated by local opposition. When their massacre was announced in Rome, it was treated as martyrdom. Francesco Benci, professor of rhetoric at the Collegium Romanum, immediately set about celebrating their deaths in a new type of epic, distinct from, yet dependent upon, the classical tradition: Quinque martyres e Societate Iesu in India. This is the first critical edition and translation of this important text. The commentary highlights both the classical sources and the historical and religious context of the mission. The introduction outlines Benci’s career and stresses his role as the founder of this vibrant new genre. This volume is the first one for a new subseries in the 'Jesuit Studies' series: 'Jesuit Neo-Latin Library'.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
The Elements of Architecture
Author: Sir Henry WottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Vergil in the Middle Ages
Author: Domenico ComparettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : la
Pages : 500
Book Description
Bibliotheca Heberiana ; Catalogue Of The Library Of The Late Richard Heber, Esq
Author: Richard HeberVirgil in the Renaissance
Author: David Scott Wilson-OkamuraPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators? Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and poetry.
La Perpetuité de la Foy
Author: Antoine ArnauldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : fr
Pages : 730
Book Description
Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
Author: Antony J. HaslerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.
Author: Adam Anderson