{"product_id":"latin-poetry-by-jacopo-sannazaro-9780674034068","title":"Latin Poetry","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacopo Sannazaro (1456–1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Accademia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having written, in Italian, the first pastoral romance in European literature, the \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e (1504). But after this early work, Sannazaro devoted himself entirely to Latin poetry modeled on his beloved Virgil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his epic \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Birth\u003c\/i\u003e (1526), which earned him the title of \"the Christian Virgil,\" he also composed \u003ci\u003ePiscatory Eclogues\u003c\/i\u003e, an innovative adaption of the eclogue form, as well as elegies, epigrams, and a number of shorter works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains the first complete English translation of all of Sannazaro's poetry in Latin, accompanied by extensive notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519517659372,"sku":"9780674034068","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674034068-latin-poetry-1.jpg?v=1790160518","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/latin-poetry-by-jacopo-sannazaro-9780674034068","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}