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Title

The Battle of Lepanto / edited and translated by Elizabeth R. Wright, Sarah Spence, and Andrew Lemons.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Lemons, Andrew
• Spence, Sarah, 1954-
• Wright, Elizabeth R., 1963-

Description

xxiv, 527 pages : maps; 21 cm.

Summary

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical backgrounds who composed Latin poetry, often modeled on Vergil and other Roman poets, in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Among the poems included is the two-book 'Austrias Carmen' by the remarkable Juan Latino, a black African former slave who became a professor of Latin in Granada. The poems, including two previously unpublished, are here translated into English for the first time, along with fresh editions of the Latin texts.

Series Statement

I Tatti Renaissance library ; ITRL 61

Uniform Title

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 61.

Subject

• 1571
• 1500-1599
• 1500-talet
• Lepanto, Battle of, Greece, 1571, in literature
• Italian poetry > 16th century > Translations into English
• Latin poetry > Translations into English
• Spanish poetry > 16th century > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern – Translations into English.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 498-502) and index.

Language (note)

• Latin on the verso, translation on the recto.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Song of the Nereids / Carlo Malatesta -- II. On the treaty struck between the Christian leaders / Belisario Gadaldini -- III. Proteus / Cornelio Amalteo -- IV. [When nurturing Venus beholds the tragic ruin] / Marc Antonio Tritonio -- V. To those who died in the Holy War / Nicolo Paladino -- VI. [A city in mourning pays homage to Hector] / Alessandro Allegri -- VII. Hymn to Saint Mark and Saint Justina / Davide Podavini -- VIII. On Mustafa / Giovanni Canevari -- IX. [I am the moon; the fear of war has surrounded me] / Maffeo Galladei -- X. The council of the damned and Ali in despair / Giovanni Battista Oliva -- XI. On the painter portraying the same victory / Anonymous -- XII. On the action victory over the depraved fleet of Turks / Agostino Fortunio --
• XIII. To Sebastiano Venier, admiral of the Venetian fleet / Giovanni Battista Amalteo -- XIV. One hundred verses : to the city / Anonymous -- XV. [I will now sing of the happy deeds] / Anonymous -- XVI. Nautical eclogue, or The naval contest of the Christians and Turks / Giovanni Antonio Taglietti -- XVII. To the most reverend Paolo Odescalchi, Bishop of Penne and Atri / Giovanni Antonio Odescalchi -- XVIII. [The long-desired day at last dispelled the fading shadows] / Ottaviano Manini -- XIX. A shining song for the victor, John of Austria / Pompeo Arnolfini -- XX. The victory at Naupactus / Giovanni Baptista Arcucci -- XXI. Song on the victory of the Christian fleet / Guglielmo Moizio -- XXII. The song of John of Austria / Juan Latino -- Appendix I: Glossary of names and places -- Appendix II: Biographical information.

ISBN

9780674725423 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013032965

OCLC

• 859252930
• SCSB-11759959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library