Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age

Download or read book Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age written by Marek Tue Kretschmer and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.