This is the first complete translation in English of Giambattista Marino's Adone , a poem of 20 cantos written in Italian and first published in 1623 in Paris. Although Marino's work has been characterized as a mythological poem with the tragic tale of Venus and Adonis at its core and woven through with retellings of many Greek and Roman myths, it is clear that Marino strove to write more than an Italian version of Ovid's Metamorphoses . The highly...