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Lorenzo Gambara's Caprarola and On Poetic Composition

Text, Translation and Commentary

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Paul G. Gwynne, Patrick M. Owens, Paul G Gwynne, Patrick M Owens

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In 1569, Lorenzo Gambara published a long verse description of the Farnese palace at Caprarola, which was dedicated to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Twelve years later, this poem was thoroughly revised and considerably lengthened. In the meantime, the aged poet had repudiated the compositions of his youth and repented his lascivious verse. This dramatic change of heart is documented in a Latin treatise in which poets are encouraged to eschew pagan and classical themes in favor of Christian subject matter. This volume presents the first English translation with commentary of the revised poem and the treatise, which is newly ascribed to the Jesuit polymath Antonio Possevino.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-24
Mått155 x 235 x 38 mm
Vikt899 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJesuit Studies
Antal sidor496
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004125582

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Paul Gwynne, Ph.D. (1990), The Warburg Institute, University of London, is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The American University of Rome. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters in books as well as a trilogy of monographs that review the production of neo-Latin poetry in Rome from 1480-1600, including Francesco Benci, Quinque Martyres. Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Brill, 2017).Patrick M. Owens, Ph.D. (2015), Institutum Altioris Latinitatis, Università Pontificia Salesiana, is Distinguished Assistant Professor of Classics at Colgate Univeristy. He is President of the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies and the editor of the journal Neo-Latin News.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction—Erat vrbi lavs magna: Toward a Biography of Lorenzo GambaraPart 1 TractatioLorenzo Gambara and Antonio Possevino1 The Tractatio in Context2 A Note on the Text and TranslationTractatio: Text and TranslationTractatio: CommentaryPart 2 CaprarolaThe Farnese Villa and Gardens at Caprarola1 Gambara’s Caprarola: Synopsis2 Dramatis personae3 Pastoral and Epic4 Gambara and Virgil5 The Revisions to the Second Edition of Caprarola (1581)6 A Note on the Verse7 A Note on the Typography and the TranscriptionsCaprarola: Text and TranslationCaprarola: Commentary to the TextCaprarola: AppendicesAppendix 1: The Room of Hercules, Caprarola (1569), 20:4–27:8Appendix 2: Garden Lore, Caprarola (1569), 35:10–30Appendix 3: Roma and Fame, Caprarola (1586), 178:31–179:2Appendix 4: In adventv svmmi Pont[Ificis] Gregorii XIII ad Arcem Caprarolae; BAV, Vat.lat. 7192, fols. 249v–250vAppendix 5: Augurat opera sua fore diuturnaAppendix 6: Ad Alexandrum Cardinalem FarnesiumAppendix 7: In fontes hortorvm Caprarolae epigramma (1581)Appendix 8: Fountains and Sebastiano FaciutaCaprarola: Commentary to the AppendicesBibliographyIndex