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1	The Wandering Scholars more books like this by Helen Jane Waddell add to wishlist A study of the Goliards, itinerant Latin lyricists of the 12th and 13th centuries see all copies from $2.77! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Elegies for Sir Philip Sidney more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $7.49! new only from $67.50! \| first editions
3	Selections from the Carmina Burana: A New Verse Translation more books like this by Xenophon, David Parlett (Translator), Anonymous add to wishlist This is a selection from the 13th century collection of secular Latin poems. Some are serious (eg "Crusade" poems) but the majority are light, including many love poems. A number of items from the Carmina are well known as text for Carl Orff's 'Scenic Cantata'. see all copies from $3.69! new only from $8.00!
4	Reading Latin Poetry Aloud: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse more books like this by Clive Brooks add to wishlist Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. It establishes a practical working pronunciation for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Latin by means of a detailed analysis of the essential known facts, and it develops and explains a clear and practical ... see all copies from $33.59! new only from $33.59!
5	The Major Latin Poems of Jacopo Sannazaro more books like this by Jacopo Sannazaro, Ralph Nash (Translator) add to wishlist This work contains prose translation of the poems of Neo-Latin poet Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530), whose work provides insights into Renaissance art, literature and socio-political history. The text also examines topics such as his influence on the development of English poetry. see all copies from $6.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions
6	The Major Latin Poems of Jacopo Sannazaro more books like this by Ralph Nash (Translator), Jacopo Sannazaro add to wishlist This work contains prose translation of the poems of Neo-Latin poet Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530), whose work provides insights into Renaissance art, literature and socio-political history. The text also examines topics such as his influence on the development of English poetry. see all copies from $3.26! new only from $3.26!
7	Early American Latin Verse more books like this by Leo M Kaiser add to wishlist During their first two centuries of colonial life, Americans produced a large and fascinating body of original Latin poetry. The poets included in this anthology represent the continuity and vitality of the classical tradition as a major educational and cultural force in the New World. The book includes Latin text and notes. see all copies from $7.20! new only from $12.26!
8	Mediaeval Latin Lyrics more books like this by Helen Waddell add to wishlist Writing excitedly to her sister Meg in 1929, Helen Waddell quotes an early review of Mediaeval Latin lyrics: Miss Waddell has kept her promise well: she promised a volume of translations from those fascinating vagantes. Some indeed are among the loveli see all copies from $4.00! new only from $52.60! \| first editions
9	Samuel Johnson: The Latin Poems more books like this by Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (Translator) add to wishlist This edition of Johnson's Latin Poems contains a Preface and Introduction followed by text, translation (prose), and brief notes on the poems. Several corrections have been made to the standard text. The notes deal with the obscurities and provide comment on style and treatment. It is often interesting to see how Johnson uses his Latin sources, ... see all copies from $32.95! new only from $32.95! \| SVS
10	Fortune's Prisoner: The Poems of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy more books like this by Boethius, James Harpur (Translator) add to wishlist An aristocratic scholar and influential member of the court of Theodoric, Boethius (born about AD 480) was arrested for alleged treason and executed in about 524. While in prison he wrote his masterpiece, "The Consolation of Philosophy", a work of mixed prose and verse in which he considers universal issues such as the nature of justice, the ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $9.56! \| first editions
11	A Garland of Satire, Wisdom, and History: Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia) more books like this by Bridget K Balint (Editor), Professor Jan Ziolkowski (Editor), Laura Light add to wishlist This book brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) from the late eleventh and early twelfth century, preserved in Houghton Library's anthology known as MS Lat 300. This book offers unparalleled access to the anthology, previously unavailable in English. From a literary point of ... see all copies from $19.79! new only from $35.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification more books like this by Dag Ludvig Norberg, Professor Jan Ziolkowski (Editor), Grant C Roti (Translator) add to wishlist Dag Norberg's analysis and interpretation of medieval Latin versification, which was published in French in 1958 and remains the standard work on the subject, appears in English with a detailed, scholarly introduction by Jan Ziolkowski that reviews developments since its initial publication. Norberg examines various themes of medieval Latin ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $50.95!
13	Medieval Latin Lyrics more books like this by Fritz Kredel (Illustrator), Fritz Fredel, Brian Stock (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.50! first editions
14	The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in Its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs, 50-1050 more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! first editions \| SVS
15	An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry more books like this by Fred J Nichols add to wishlist see all copies from $62.49! first editions
16 view cover	The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages more books like this by Helen Jane Waddell add to wishlist Acclaimed study of the makers and singers of medieval Latin poetry considers Fortunatus, Abelard, the revival of learning in France, 12th-century humanism, the Carmina Burana, more. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $54.20!
17 view cover	Latin Poetry more books like this by Jacopo Sannazaro, Professor Michael C J Putnam (Translator) add to wishlist Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Academia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having written, in Italian, the first pastoral romance in European literature, the Arcadia (1504). But ... see all copies from $23.46! new only from $23.46! \| SVS
18	Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse more books like this by Frederick J. Raby (Editor) add to wishlist This book presents 290 representative selections of religious and secular Latin poetry from the period A.D. 300-1300. It includes not only famous hymns and sequences, but also selections from epic poetry and a large number of secular lyrics from various manuscript collections. see all copies from $27.17! first editions
19 view cover	Carminum Libellus; de Aetna more books like this by Pietro Bembo, Mary P Chatfield (Editor), Betty Radice (Translator) add to wishlist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. After some years at the court of Urbino, where he exchanged Platonic love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, he moved to Rome and served as secretary to Leo X (1513-1520). Later he retired to Padua and a life of letters. He was made a cardinal in 1539. The ... see all copies from $22.01! new only from $22.01! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Latin poetry in verse translation: from the beginnings to the Renaissance more books like this by Levi Robert Lind (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21	Certuv Kamen more books like this by Richard Neugebauer (Editor), Ladislav Hanka (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $11.47! new only from $22.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22	More Latin lyrics from Virgil to Milton more books like this by Helen Waddell, Felicitas Corrigan add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00!
23	Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry, 750-1150 more books like this by Jan Ziolkowski add to wishlist see all copies from $15.75! new only from $122.50! \| first editions
24 view cover	Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the Absence of Things more books like this by Eileen C Sweeney add to wishlist A study of of the major logical, philosophical/theological, and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille. see all copies from $65.15! new only from $65.15!
25 view cover	Thirty Poems from "Carmina Burana" more books like this by P G Walsh add to wishlist This is a translation of thirty poems from "Carmina Burana". see all copies from $9.95! new only from $26.95!

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