Properzio: Elegie Libro II : Introduzione, teste e Commento

The Augustan elegiac poet Sextus Propertius composed four books of elegies, erotic, political, and personal, in the first two decades of the reign of the emperor Augustus. Propertius' unique combination of passionate commitment to love and life with profound Hellenistic learning and wit has endowed his elegies with a vividness and variety which still fascinates after two thousand years.
Of the four books of Propertius, Book 2 has always presented the most, and the most impenetrable, difficulties of text and interpretation. Fedeli's major commentary on the book, written in lucid and elegant Italian, brings to bear on it the learning and judgement acquired in a lifetime of engagement with and experience of the work of Propertius. Its thorough, detailed treatments of the elegies of Book 2 will greatly improve the accessibility of these complex and tantalising poems to both scholars and students.
Properzio Elegie Libro II. Introduzione, testo e commento also contains detailed analytic indexes, and an extensive bibliography of major works cited.

General

ISBN		9780905205427
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Francis Cairns
Pages		1070
List Price		$300.00
Author		Fedeli, Paolo
Publication Date		02/16/2006
Release Status		In Print
Format		Hardcover
Language		Latin
Measurements		Height: 8.75 Inches (US) Width: 5.5 Inches (US) Thickness: 2.75 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 3.15 Pounds (US)
Series		ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs