Latin Literature: A History
by Gian Biagio Conte
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This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the show more seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte. Many of the entries - those on Virgil and Petronius, for example - provide elegantly compact formulations of work on the very frontier of current study, and virtually all entries offer something of interest for the lay reader and expert alike. show lessTags
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An authoritative overview of Classical Latin literature, covering just about any author or work of significance. I haven't come across another literary reference book which equals this in terms of (1) comprehensiveness, (2) focusing on the works rather than some broader scheme or narrative, (3) including an extensive and opinionated bibliography, including editions, translations, and commentaries. I have tried and failed to find a book like this for Greek literature, and my pipe dream would be something like this for post-classical Latin. Highly recommended.
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- Original title
- Letteratura latina : manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano
- Alternate titles
- Latin Literature: A History
- Original publication date
- 1987
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- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 870.9 — Literature & rhetoric Latin & Italic literatures Latin literature and literatures of related Italic languages History and criticism of Latin literature
- LCC
- PA6008 .C6613 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Roman literature Literary history
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- Languages
- English, Italian, Slovenian
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- ISBNs
- 6
