On married love ; Eridanus / Giovanni Gioviano Pontano ; translated by Luke Roman.

On married love ; Eridanus / Giovanni Gioviano Pontano ; translated by Luke Roman.

9780674728660 (hardcover)
0674728661 (hardcover)

Cambridge, Massachusettts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

English

Latin on the verso, translation on the recto. The latin text is based on that of Oeschger (1948), but with changes to punctuation and orthography.

xxvii, 385 pages ; 21 cm.

PA8570.P5 A2 2014

871/.04

"Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Kings of Aragon and southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, Pontano produced literary works in several genres and was the leader of the Neapolitan academy. Among his large poetic output are the two brilliantly original poetical cycles that comprise the present volume. On Married Love stakes out new ground in the Western tradition as the first sustained exploration of married love in first-person poetry. In Eridanus, which celebrates the poet's love for a mistress, Pontano combines the familiar motifs of courtly love with the allusive matrix of classical elegy and his own distinctive vision. Both works are here translated into English for the first time."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-372) and index.

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 63.

Container of (expression): Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503. De amore coniugali. English (Roman)

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