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  • Record Number: 46846
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Kretschmer , Marek Thue
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  • 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  Edited by Marek Thue Kretschmer, translator and editorPublications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 14.  Brepols, 2020.  Pages 25 - 44.
  • Description: 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: https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503587035-1]
  • Article Type: Edition of Text; Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Classical Influences Latin Literature Literature- Verse Love in Literature Ovid, Ancient Poet Versus Eporedienses, Poem
  • Award Note: Feminae Translation of the Month, January 2024
  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 11
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  • Author's Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English, Latin
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available