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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2019
      September 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108582094
      9781108499927
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582094
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 157 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 390 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, Classical Literature
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    Virgil's fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literature. This study traces the fortunes of Eclogue 4 in the literature and art of the Italian Renaissance. It sheds new light on some of the most canonical works of Western art and literature, as well as introducing a large number of other, lesser-known items, some of which have not appeared in print since their original publication, while others are extant only in manuscript. Individual chapters are devoted to the uses made of the fourth Eclogue in the political panegyric of Medici Florence, the Venetian Republic and the Renaissance papacy, and to religious appropriations of the Virgilian text in the genres of epic and pastoral poetry. The book also investigates the appearance of quotations from the poem in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century fresco cycles representing the prophetic Sibyls in Italian churches.

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    ‘This excellent volume will be a valuable guide and resource for scholars of Renaissance literature and of classical reception, and should be made available in every university library.’

    Syrithe Pugh Source: International Journal of the Classical Tradition

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