Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance (Library of Renaissance Humanism) - Hardcover

9781893009028: Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance (Library of Renaissance Humanism)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1893009025 ISBN 13: 9781893009028

Publisher: Summertown Texts, 1998

This is a unique study of documents crucial to our understanding of Renaissance culture. It takes three of Ovid's fables--Apollo and Daphne, Actaeon, and Echo and Narcissus--and follows the renaissance history of their interpretation by translating (with full annotation) the appropriate sections from nine major commentaries on Ovid, beginning with that by Raphael Regius (1493) and ending with Thomas Farnabius's (1637).

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About the Author

Ann Moss (PhD Cambridge University) is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of French at Durham University. She has published extensively on the influence of Ovid on French renaissance literature and on renaissance commonplace books.