{"product_id":"cantigas-9780691179407","title":"Cantigas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These cantigas, in Zenith’s hands, remind me that a poetry’s message is its music.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jesse Nathan, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zenith helps provide a roadmap to appreciate some of the idiosyncratic aspects of the medieval language while also allowing himself the freedom to interpret the cantigas without a priority for overly literal translation. . . . Zenith’s phrasing conveys the love-sickness, anguish, jealousy, danger and fear that pulse through the original poems.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jacob Abell, \u003ci\u003eReading in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Delightful. . . . A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain.\" * Portuguese American Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Zenith is to be congratulated for an authoritative, attractive and highly readable presentation of these songs to a twenty-first-century anglophone audience.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Frier, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eThis edition will bring this considerably large lyric corpus to the attention of a much wider circle of readers. It is a volume that deserves to be in the library of every medievalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---Josiah Blackmore, \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403854618967,"sku":"9780691179407","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691179407.jpg?v=1730484726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cantigas-9780691179407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}