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The Design of Virgil's Bucolics. Duckworth. ISBN 1-85399-676-9. Van Sickle, John B. (2011). Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues in English Verse. Framed by Cues for Reading Out-Loud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themes. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9799-3. |
The beginning of Virgil's Eclogues, 15th century manuscript, Vatican Library. An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. The term is also used for a musical genre thought of as evoking a pastoral scene.
In 3.1, Meliboeus is mentioned briefly as the possible owner of a flock of sheep. In Eclogue 7 he appears herding sheep and goats, and he is the narrator who retells story of the contest between Corydon and Thyrsis. Eclogue 1.71 suggests that Meliboeus is portrayed as a full Roman citizen, not a slave. [21]
Eclogue II (featuring an amoebaean song contest) and Eclogue VI (which relates to an aborted amoebaean song contest), providing a middle frame around Eclogue IV, corresponding to Virgil's Eclogues III and VII. [7] Poems with dialogue (Eclogues II, IV and VI) are interwoven with poems containing long monologues (Eclogues I, III, V and VII). [8]
Bucolicum carmen is an organic collection of twelve eclogues, composed by Petrarch from c. 1346–7 and published in 1357. [1] The last (Aggelos) contains the dedication of the sylloge to Donato Albanzani.
The Eclogues are two Latin hexameter poems in the bucolic style by Dante Alighieri, named after Virgil's Eclogues. The two poems are the 68-verse Vidimus in nigris albo patiente lituris and the 97-verse Velleribus Colchis prepes detectus Eous. They were composed between 1319 and 1320 in Ravenna, but only published for the first time in Florence ...
Adulescentia Hypertext version of the Mantuan's eclogues containing Latin text with an English translation and notes by leading Mantuan scholar Lee Piepho; Secundae Parthenices opus, printed in Cologne, 1500; full digital facsimile, CAMENA Project; Bucolica, printed in Paris, 1528; full digital facsimile, CAMENA Project "Baptista, John" .
The Eclogues of Nemesianus have come down to us through the manuscript tradition, together with the seven Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus, as a single collection of 11 Eclogues. In her survey of extant ancient/medieval sources of the Eclogues, Williams identifies 30 manuscripts and 7 anthologies. [ 33 ]