Christiad (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 39)

by Marco Girolamo Vida (Author), James Gardner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

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  Marco Girolamo Vida, humanist and bishop, came to prominence as a Latin poet in the Rome of Leo X and Clement VII. Vida's famous epic, the Christiad , a retelling of the life of Christ in the style of Vergil, was published in 1535. It was translated into dozens of languages, including Persian and Croatian. This is a translation of his work.