@article{1380726, author = {Stapleton, M. L.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1380726}, title = {Harmful eloquence : Ovid's Amores from Antiquity to Shakespeare /}, publisher = {University of Michigan Press,}, abstract = {M.L. Stapleton's Harmful Eloquence: Ovid's Amores from Antiquity to Shakespeare traces the influence of the early elegiac poetry of Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E.-17 C.E.) on European literature from 500-1600 C.E. The Amores served as a classical model for love poetry in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and were essential to the formation of fin' Amors, or "courtly love." Medieval Latin poets, the troubadours, Dante, Petrarch, and Shakespeare were all familiar with Ovid in his various forms, and all depended greatly upon his Amores in composing their cansos, canzoniere, and sonnets.}, recid = {1380726}, pages = {xi, 175 pages ;}, address = {Ann Arbor :}, year = {1996}, }