Showing posts with label LatinPoetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LatinPoetry. Show all posts
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Pulleyn: Church-yard Gleanings
Church-yard Gleanings, and Epigrammatic Scraps by William Pulleyn
This book contains a collection of epitaphs with essays for each one, along with a selection of epigrams. For the Latin epitaphs both the Latin and an English translations are provided. Here is the full title - so charming! "Being a collection of remarkable epitaphs and epigrams compiled from the most ancient as well as modern sources, foreign and domestic, serious and facetious, to which are annexed some observations on churches, church-yards, rites of sepulture, tombs, and mausoleums; with instructions for ascertaining the dates of ancient monuments." There is a table of contents which allows you to quickly browse for persons or places of interest to you.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Kochanowski: Dzieła wszystkie
Dzieła wszystkie by Jan Kochanowski (1884)
This volume of Kochanowski's complete works contains his Latin poetry.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Psalteria Rhythmica
Psalteria Rhythmica ed. by Clemens Blume and Guido Maria Dreves (1900)
As someone who finds rhyming Latin poetry irresistible, this is just my kind of book. Here are the opening lines of the Psalterium Iesu:
Ave, Iesu, beatorum
Spes et salus miserorum,
Dux et via tu iustorum,
Iter spernis impiorum.
Ave, candor purgans mentes,
In quem frustra fremunt gentes,
Invidorum nos rodentes
Et hostiles tunde dentes.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Meyer: Cato Christianus
Cato Christianus by A. de Meyer (1598)
As the title explains: Cato christianus: sive institutio paraenetica ad pietatem, tetrastichis tanquam aphorismis digesta. Maybe after I finish with the distich project, I should move on to tetrastichs!
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Mercier: De officiis scholasticorum
De officiis scholasticorum, sive de recta ratione proficiendi in litteris, virtute et moribus by Nicolas Mercier (1664)
The poetry in this book is accompanied by notes (often very lengthy notes) in Latin explaining sources and poetic turns of phrase. The poems are in elegiac verse, and each of the three books is organized into separate chapters, with each chapter covering a particular theme. The book also reprints Erasmus' De Civilitate Morum Puerilium after Mercier's three books of verse.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Germano: Giardino di sentenze volgari e latine
Giardino di sentenze volgari e latine by Antonio Germano (1630)
There is an index of authors at the beginning - and you can see just from scanning that list what a delightful collection that is. The next index is an alphabetical index of the contents (in Italian). The contents consist of prose sayings as well as short passages of verse, with authors indicated, and sometimes with the title of the work. The mixture of classical and neo-Latin poetry is really appealing. There are plenty of epigrams and distichs in here, as well as short excerpts from longer poems and dramatic works. There is more Latin content than Italian - so the book makes great reading even for people who don't know Italian, and if you do read Italian, it is even better!
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Pauly: Anthologia poematum latinorum aevi recentioris
Anthologia poematum latinorum aevi recentioris by August Pauly (1818)
The section on Elegica-Epigrammata-Gnomica-Aenigmata begins on p. 141 and runs for almost 150 pages. there is an index of authors with some bibiographical information in the back of the book. Although the poems are on the long side, I might find a few good distichs here, too!
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Textor: Sylloge
Sylloge variorum aenigmatum, apophthegmatum, gnomarum, historiarumque by Joannis Textor (1612)
The categories start with Sancta Scriptura, followed by the Mundus, then Tempus, Ignis, Aves, and on and on. This is a delightful anthology, very readable, mostly in Latin, along with some German.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Chase: The Distichs of Cato
The Distichs of Cato by Wayland Johnson Chase (1922)
This book contains the Latin text along with an English translation prepared by Chase, based on earlier English translations with a bit of an archaic feel. There's also a detailed introduction to the text.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Ordronaux: Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum by John Ordronaux (1870)
This delightful edition contains the code of health of the school of Salernum translated into English verse, together with the Latin text, along with a detailed introduction.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Symonds: Wine, Women and Song
Wine, Women and Song by John Addington Symonds (1899)
This is a collection of medieval Latin student songs translated into English. The Latin texts are not provided here, unfortunately - maybe if I can find time this summer I will pull together the Latin texts to go along with this lovely English translation. It contains an extensive introductory essay as well as commentary on each song. There is a useful table of songs in the back of the book which gives the references for the Latin poems along with the incipits.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Map: Latin Poems
Latin Poems, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, ed. by Thomas Wright (1841)
Whether or not these poems are by Walter Map is uncertain, but they make good reading anyway - you will find here the Dialogus inter Aquam et Vinum, for example, the Disputatio inter Cor et Oculum, among other delights.
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Brown: Latin Songs
Latin Songs by Calvin Smith Brown (1914)
The book contains classical, medieval and modern Latin songs, with music, too! The classical songs are poems from poets (Catullus, Horace) with musical settings. There is a large selection of medieval hymns and songs. The modern songs include "Mica, Mica, Parva Stella" and "Domine, Salvum Fac Regem."
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Dornavius: Amphitheatrum Sapientiae
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Socraticae Ioco-Seriae by Caspar Dornavius (1619)
As the full title explains: Amphitheatrum sapientiae Socraticae joco-seriae, hoc est, Encomia et commentaria autorum, qua veterum, qua recentiorum prope omnium: quibus res, aut pro vilibus vulgo aut damnosis habitae, styli patrocinio vindicantur, exornantur: opus ad mysteria naturae discenda, ad omnem amoenitatem, sapientiam, virtutem, publice privatimque utilissimum. This book is an astounding anthology, as you can see from looking at the "syllabus" of authors and natural history topics in the first volume. For Greek authors, a facing Greek-Latin text presentation is used. What a treasure trove!
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Melander: Iocorum atque seriorum centuriae
Iocorum atque seriorum centuriae by Otho Melander (1643)
Here is the full title of the book: irresistible! Jocorum atque seriorum, tum novorum, tum selectorum atque memorabilium centuriae aliquot iucundae, suaves et amoenae, nec non utiles, et festivae, lectuque et maximopere dignae, nunc denuo auctae, et in hac portatili forma pro hominibus salium et facetiarum amantibus ad delectationem ipsorum ultimum editae. The selections are in both prose and poetry, and there are brief indications as to the source for each story. For example, I was delighted to find this version of the story of the astrologer, Thales, falling into a ditch, put into elegiac verse:
Ardua forte Thales caeli dum sidera lustrat,
In foveam gressu praecipitante ruit:
Hunc anus ut quaedam delapsum rustica vidit,
Quae vitreo liquidas fonte petebat aquas.
Sic super illudens cum pervenisset ad ipsum,
Alloquitur quatiens voce tremente caput,
"Astra quid inspectas caeli sublimia, Stulte,
Nec tibi quae prosint inferiora vides?
Dumque futura studes aliis praedicere fata,
Cernere quae iacent, non potes, ante pedes."
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Nugae Venales
Nugae Venales (1741)
What an irresistible book description: Nugae Venales, sive Thesaurus ridendi & jocandi ad gravissimos severissimosque viros: patres melancholicorum conscriptos. Even more irresistible, the book opens with this address: Festive lector! The book was published in London in 1720, but no author is indicated. The book is full of jokes and humorous little essays along with poetry, too. There's even a portrait of Publius Porcius Poeta, the author of Pugna Porcorum!
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Stoa: Disticha in omnes fabulas Ovidii
Disticha in omnes fabulas P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon by G. F. Quintianus Stoa (1514)
This retells the stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses in the form of distichs. For example, here is the death of Pentheus:
Penthea, quid lacerat mater? lacerantque sorores;
Non aprum violant, Penthea sed feriunt.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Richardson: Carmina Anglica
Carmina Anglica by Leon Josiah Richardson (1899)
This includes facing-text versions of English poems ("Under the greenwood tree," for example, and "Come live with me and be my love," etc.) and renderings into Latin verse. Note that the names of the English poets can be found at the END of each English poem.
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Theatrum Lyricum
Theatrum Lyricum (1721)
The extravagant title page gives abundant information about the contents and purposes of this book: "quo poetarum lyricorum omnium, quotquot ab Horatio, ad haec usque tempora editi sunt, et haberi potuerunt Phrases, Loci Communes, Comparationes, Synonyma, Epitheta, Sententiae, et Elegantiae Poeticae cum summa cura et industria iuxta ordinem Alphabeticum ita exhibentur, ut quidquid in omnibus poetis lyricis hucusque dispertum fuit, hoc uno volumine totum contineatur, opus semper desideratum et in gratiam poeticae et rhetoricae amatorum, praecipue in studiosae iuventutis commodum nunc primo concinnatum et editum, cum indice copiosissimo inseruntur descriptiones sacra et profana elegantissima fere 500 accesserunt in fine in usum rhetorices studiosorum." The book comes in "tres libelli" as follows: I. Elegantias Lyricas, Acumina, et quidquid commode ad ordinem Alphabeticum reduci non potuit complectitur; II. Varium verborum et nominum usum apud poetas lyricos ostendit; III. Exhibet modum et auxilia carmen lyricum componendi. The book is enormous, well over 700 pages.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Cholodniak: Carmina Sepulcralia Latina
Carmina Sepulcralia Latina by John Cholodniak (1897)
The book contains over 500 pages of Latin tomb inscriptions, with some useful notes on the Latin texts. Some of the inscriptions are highly fragmented, of course, but many are entirely readable. There is an index of incipits, along with cross-references to the various catalogs of Latin inscriptions.
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