Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age: A Study of the "Versus Eporedienses" and the Latin Classics. By Marek Thue Kretschmer. Brepols Publishers, 2020. ISBN 9782503587035 (pbk) and 9782503587042 (online).
"Le romant des Fables Ovide le Grant", ou les Métamorphoses d'Ovide moralisées en vers français par Chrestien Legouais de Sainte-More près Troyes, 1301-1325, French, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-5069 réserve, fol. 68r. (Source: Gallica, Public domain)
"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]
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