Reading, Devotion and Religious Print in Early Cinquecento Naples: The Case of Francesco Sovaro’s Christiade.
This article analyses a little known Christian epic poem, the Christiade by Francesco Sovaro. Printed in Naples in 1539, the poem is a mosaic of passages from the Gospels offering a synoptic version of the life of Christ. I argue that the Christiade represents not only a literary work, but also a to...
| Publicado en: | Italian Studies Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 238 - 256 |
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| Formato: | Poetry Review |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2017
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