The Road Not Taken: Dante's First Eclogue and Virgil's Career.
Near the end of his career, Dante wrote two eclogues, instigating a literary fashion which was to outlast the Renaissance. These poems—Dante's only known compositions in Latin verse—were prompted by a verse epistle from Giovanni 'del Virgilio', in which the humanist scholar goaded Dante to compose a...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 367 - 394 |
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