Latin Literature: A History - Softcover

Conte, Gian Biagio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801862531 ISBN 13: 9780801862533

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

The authoriatative history of Latin literature.

"His mastery of the vast range of literature that he covers is remarkable."―NY Review of Books

About the Author:

Gian Biagio Conte is a professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0801862531
• ISBN 13: 9780801862533
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 864