Augustine's Virgilian Retreat - Reading the Auctores at Cassiciacum

About the author

Joseph Pucci is an Associate Professor of Classics, with appointments also in the Program in Medieval Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He holds an undergraduate degree from John Carroll University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. His main interests are in late antiquity, later and medieval Latin, and reception studies. He prepared the second edition of K.P. Harrington's Medieval Latin (1997) and is the author of The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (1998) as well as Poems to Friends (2010), a translation and commentary on the personal poetry of Venantius Fortunatus. He is also the author of a forthcoming companion volume to Augustine's Virgilian Retreat entitled Recuperating Virgil: Reading the Auctores in Augustine's "Confessions", and is currently working on a translation, with commentary, of Alcuin's poems and letters.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Pucci, Joseph Michael Pucci
• Publisher: Pims
• Languages: English, Latin
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2014
• EAN: 9780888441874
• ISBN: 978-0-88844-187-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Studies and Texts
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education