L. B. T. Houghton

Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil''s ''messianic'' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108607391
• Artikelnr.: 70910379

Autorenporträt

L. B. T. Houghton teaches Classics at Rugby School and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. With Maria Wyke, he has edited Perceptions of Horace (Cambridge, 2009); with Gesine Manuwald, Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (2012); and with Marco Sgarbi, Virgil and Renaissance Culture (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Eclogue 4: text and translation
Part I. Prolegomena: 1. Introduction: noua progenies
2. A new age: the Virgilian Renaissance
Part II. Politics: 3. Florentine fantasies: Maro and the Medici
4. Maritime Maro: Virgil in Venice
5. Princely propaganda: the Italian states
6. Vatican vaticinations: the Papal Golden Age
Part III. Religion: 7. Poet and Christian? The Messianic Fourth Eclogue
8. tua dicere facta: the Messianic epic
9. A child is born: the Nativity eclogue
10. teste Sibylla: Virgil in church
Epilogue: time regained.