Ancient Latin Epics in Girolamo Vida's Christiad

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73866-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

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Girolamo Vida’s Christiad (1535) is one of the most important Neo-Latin epics, a Catholic poem based on the Gospel and commissioned by Pope Leo X. Often regarded as a Christian Aeneid, this book challenges that view, demonstrating that while Virgil remains the main model, Vida also engages deeply with Lucretius, Ovid, Lucan, Silius Italicus, and Statius. By examining Vida’s imitative techniques and integration of multiple epic models, it reassesses the Christiad’s relationship with the Latin epic tradition. In doing so, it sheds new light on the afterlife of these classical poems as print made them more widely available.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cianciosi, Stefano

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Stefano Cianciosi, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in Latin at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. He has published mainly on ancient Latin epics and their reception in Renaissance Neo-Latin literature.