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Title
John of Garland, Integumenta Ovidii
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Integumenta Ovidii
Type
Text
Monograph
Classification
LCC: PA6519.M9 J63 2022 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 873/.01 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23/eng/20220920)
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Content
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Note
Includes translation or is translation
original text: : Latin
Summary
"The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii ("Allegories on Ovid") in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid's Metamorphoses. This important but difficult work has fascinated and challenged generations of modern students and scholars. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John's condensed allegories in their medieval context. Textual notes discuss the various difficulties in the transmitted text of the poem, and offer several improvements on the texts of the older editions"-- Provided by publisher
Authorized Access Point
John, of Garland, approximately 1195-approximately 1272 John of Garland, Integumenta Ovidii