The Battle of Lepanto

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-674-72542-3
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical backgrounds who composed Latin poetry, often modeled on Vergil and other Roman poets, in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Among the poems included is the two-book Austrias Carmen by the remarkable Juan Latino, a black African former slave who became a professor of Latin in Granada. The poems, including two previously unpublished, are here translated into English for the first time, along with fresh editions of the Latin texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wright, Elizabeth R.

Spence, Sarah

Lemons, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Spence, Sarah
Sarah Spence is Distinguished Research Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emerita, at the University of Georgia.

Wright, Elizabeth R.
Elizabeth R. Wright is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia.

Lemons, Andrew
Andrew Lemons is Associate Instructor in the University Writing Program at the University of Utah.