Latin poetry by Jacopo Sannazaro and translated by Michael C

This is poetry from Italy.

Latin poetry by Jacopo Sannazaro translated by Michael C is published by Harvard University Press. This is a Book originally written in Latin. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780674034068E12.

Latin Poetry, by Jacopo Sannazaro and translated by Michael C., brings English-language readers into a Renaissance humanist world where Latin remained a living literary instrument rather than a dead museum language. Sannazaro is often remembered for pastoral and classical inheritance, and this Harvard volume likely positions his Latin verse within that learned, artful tradition. I would read it with patience for formality, because the pleasures here may not be the quick shocks of contemporary lyric. They may be found in craft, allusion, landscape, and the strange afterlife of antiquity inside early modern imagination. Translation from Latin asks a different kind of listening: not only between languages, but between eras of literary value. This book belongs in the library as a reminder that translation also moves across time.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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