Latin Literature - A History

Informationen zum Autor Gian Biagio Conte is a professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy. Klappentext This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, "Latin Literature: A History" is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, "Latin Literature" offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte. Zusammenfassung Including names! dates! edition citations! and detailed summaries! the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist! Gian Biagio Conte.

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• Authors: Gian Biagio Conte, Gian Biagio (Universita Degli Studi DI Pisa Conte, Gian Biagio (Universita degli studi di Pisa) Conte
• Assisted by: Don P Fowler (Editor), Don P. Fowler (Editor), Glen W Most (Editor), Don P. Fowler (Translation), Glenn W. Most (Translation), Joseph Solodow (Translation), Joseph B. Solodow (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2000
• EAN: 9780801862533
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6253-3
• No. of pages: 864
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval