The amatory elegies of Johannes Secundus / / Paul Murgatroyd.

• Superior document: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 28
• VerfasserIn: Murgatroyd, Paul,
• TeilnehmendeR: Murgatroyd, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 pages)

This volume contains the first translation into English of all the major love poetry of the Renaissance neo-Latin poet Johannes Secundus and the first detailed critical appreciation of the first two books of his Elegies and the Elegiae Sollemnes. The book consists of an introduction (on the poet's life and works, characters in and dating of the amatory elegies, literary background etc.), facing Latin text and English translation of the Elegies, brief explanatory notes and full essays of appreciation, an appendix with a translation into English of the Basia and Epithalamium , and an index. This work contains extensive amounts of valuable information about Secundus' models, wit, style, sound, diction, placement, structure, manipulation of characters and themes, generic innovation etc. and facilitates a complete reappraisal of this major Renaissance love poet.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Life and Works of Johannes Secundus -- 2. Characters and dating of the amatory elegies -- 3. The literary background -- 4. Overall structure of the amatory elegies -- 5. The text, translation, notes and essays -- Text and Translation -- Ioannis Secundi Hagiensis, "Elegiarum liber primus, cui titulus Iulia" -- Elegiae Sollemnes Tres -- Jo. Secundi Hagiens., "Elegiarum liber secundus" -- Notes and Essays -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.