Short Epics

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-674-01483-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works: Astyanax, based on an episode in the Iliad The Golden Fleece (Vellus Aureum); and Antonias, a short epic based on the life of Saint Anthony of Egypt. Antonias is the first Christian epic of the Renaissance, a precursor of Milton's Paradise Lost. This volume contains the first modern editions of the Latin text of Antonias and Astyanax.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vegio, Maffeo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Putnam, Michael C. J.

Hankins, James

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hankins, James
James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of <i>Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy</i>, winner of the Marraro Prize and a <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> Book of the Year; <i>Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena</i> and <i>Plato in the Italian Renaissance</i> and editor of <i>The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy</i>. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Renaissance philosophy and political thought, he is a Corresponding Member of the British Academy.

Putnam, Michael C. J.
Michael C. J. Putnam is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics Emeritus at Brown University.