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The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii (“Allegories on Ovid”) in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. The edition presents the original Latin text with facing-page modern English translation. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John’s condensed allegories in their medieval context. Textual notes discuss the various difficulties in the transmitted text of the poem, and offer several improvements on the texts of the older editions.



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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Integumenta Ovidii
Explanatory Notes
Notes on the Text
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
      Publication Date: 21/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9781580445276, 978-1580445276
      ISBN10: 1580445276
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii (“Allegories on Ovid”) in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. The edition presents the original Latin text with facing-page modern English translation. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John’s condensed allegories in their medieval context. Textual notes discuss the various difficulties in the transmitted text of the poem, and offer several improvements on the texts of the older editions.



      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Abbreviations
      Introduction
      Integumenta Ovidii
      Explanatory Notes
      Notes on the Text
      Bibliography

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