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Record Number: 46395 Author(s)/Creator(s): Wido , , and Marek Thue Kretschmer Contributor(s): Title: Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age: A Study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin Classics Source: Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age: A Study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin Classics. Marek Thue Kretschmer.  Brepols Publishers, 2020.  Pages 25 - 43. Description: Article Type: Edition of Text; Translation Subject (See Also): Classical Influences Eroticism Latin Poetry Literature- Verse Love in Literature Ovid, Ancient Poet Award Note: Feminae Translation of the Month, January 2024 Geographic Area: Italy Century: 11 Primary Evidence: Illustrations: Table: Abstract: The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, an edition and translation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry. [Reproduced from the publisher's website.] Related Resources: Author's Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 2020. Language: English; Latin ISSN/ISBN: 9782503587035 (pbk) and 9782503587042 (online)

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