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The Virgilian Traditions: The First Fifteen Hundred Years

jan m. ziolkowski michael c.j. putnam

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This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet’s own lifetime to the year 1500. Unprecedented in scope, the book presents a vast compendium of materials that illuminate how poets, teachers, students, and common folk responded to Virgil and his poetry. The volume offers a brief commentary on each text, many of which are translated into English for the first time.
The book begins with a chronological survey of Virgil’s influence upon writers from Augustan Rome to Renaissance Italy. There follow detailed reviews of biographies of Virgil, of how his writings were received and used, and of how the poet was envisaged and explained through the centuries. The final section focuses on the tradition of legends associated with Virgil.
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1128 pages, Hardcover

First published March 11,2007

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Format
1128 pages, Hardcover
Published
March 11, 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300108224
ASIN
0300108222
Language
English

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jan m. ziolkowski

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Jan Ziolkowski occupies the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professorship of Medieval Latin at Harvard University. From 2007 to 2020 he served as Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. His scholarship has focused on the literature, especially in Latin, of the Middle Ages.
In the United States, he was elected a Member of the Medieval Academy of America in 2008, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, and the American Philosophical Society in 2017. Abroad, he was appointed a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2006 and of the Academia Europaea in 2015. In 2015 he was awarded an Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class.
He held a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 1983, an American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship in 1986, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987–1988. In 2005-2006 he was a fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Since becoming U.S. representative to the International Medieval Latin Committee in 1988, he has served as vice president from 1993 to 1999 and as president from 2000.

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Academic texts can often be boring, and one would think that a text of this magnitude (for it is a tremendous book in more than one sense) would be a bit of a drag to get through.
But not so with The Virgilian Tradition. This tome masterfully collects material relating to the poet of the Aeneid and his reception throughout the centuries, provides context and translation, and is generally a text no Vergilian should want to go without. It is truly an accomplishment in the study of Vergilian reception. Plus, there are few things more fun than reading about the gentle Vergil using magic to put giant chastity statues in the air.
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