... Armi chiedea . Ma ne le furie accensa Aletto sovra lui forte ripensa . XV Poi batte l'ali , e de gli aerei regni Va tra gli umidi campi in un momento , Là dove rei demon tra rei disdegni Errano intenti ne l'altrui tormento ; Peṛ che ...
... Armi chiedea . Ma ne le furie accensa Aletto sovra lui forte ripensa . XV Poi batte l'ali , e de gli aerei regni Va tra gli umidi campi in un momento , Là dove rei demon tra rei disdegni Errano intenti ne l'altrui tormento ; Peṛ che ...
Claudian is often called the last poet of the classical tradition. This edition of his last extant work offers a newly edited text with facing English translation.
It also ignores trifling corruptions. The commentary is similarly selective. In general, it discusses everything relevant to the establishing of the text and ignores points of purely mythological and literary interest.
His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, subtitled Baiae, are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the ...
The Roman triumph's resurgence is documented from the Tetrarchy through the end of the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium and to Charlemagne's successors in the early medieval West.
Taking as its starting point Claudian's claim to be the heir to Virgil, this book examines his poetry as part of the Roman epic tradition.
In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, god of criticism. This edition offers a new Latin text and the first full translation into English.
How were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the sixteenth century.