(H/B) MARULLUS: POEMS

Παρουσίαση

Michael Marullus (c. 1453/4-1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar who worked in Florence and Naples. He married the beautiful and learned Alessandra Scala, daughter of the humanist Bartolomeo Scala, chancellor of Florence, and his Epigrams bring alive the circle of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici. Among Marullus's influences were ancient Greek texts such as the Homeric and Orphic hymns, the Corpus Hermeticum, the hymns of Proclus, Cleanthes, and Callimachus, and Julian the Apostate's Hymn to the Sun. Marullus was particularly important, however, as one of the first Renaissance poets to imitate the works of Lucretius, and one witness reported that, after his death by drowning, a copy of the Roman poet's works was found in his saddlebag. Later poets imitated him in vernacular love poetry, especially Ronsard; he even appears as a shadowy figure in the pages of George Eliot's Romola, where he is depicted as a confirmed pagan.
This edition contains Marullus's complete Latin poetry. All of these works appear in English translation for the first time. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
Epigrams
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Hymns to Nature
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Poems of Lament
Miscellaneous Epigrams
The Education of a Prince
Appendix: Two Letters to Marullus
Note on the Text
Notes to the Translation
Bibliography
Index of First Lines
General Index