Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France
(Part of the Text and Context Series)
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Ovid's Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent lovers, held a particular fascination for Renaissance readers. To understand their responses to these letters, we must ask exactly how and in what contexts those readers first encountered them: were they read in Latin or in the vernacular; as source texts for the learning of grammar and history or as love poetry; as epistolary...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814257011
ISBN13:9780814257012
Release Date:January 2021
Publisher:Ohio State University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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