Latin love elegy and the dawn of the Ovidian age

"The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry."--

Year

2020

Language

English

Series

Publications of the Journal of medieval Latin -- 14

Publisher

Brepols

Editions

1

Pages

175

ISBN

9782503587035

Data source: Wikidata