Lorenzo Gambara's Caprarola and On Poetic Composition : Text, Translation and Commentary /

Lorenzo Gambara's Caprarola and On Poetic Composition : Text, Translation and Commentary /

In 1569, Lorenzo Gambara published a long verse description of the Farnese palace at Caprarola, which was dedicated to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Twelve years later, this poem was thoroughly revised and considerably lengthened. In the meantime, the aged poet had repudiated the compositions of his...

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Main Authors: Gwynne, Paul G. (Author), Owens, Patrick M. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Jesuit Studies ; 47.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction- Erat vrbi lavs magna : Toward a Biography of Lorenzo Gambara
  • Part 1 Tractatio
  • Lorenzo Gambara and Antonio Possevino
  •  1 The Tractatio in Context
  •  2 A Note on the Text and Translation
  • Tractatio : Text and Translation
  • Tractatio : Commentary
  • Part 2 Caprarola
  • The Farnese Villa and Gardens at Caprarola
  •  1 Gambara's Caprarola : Synopsis
  •  2  Dramatis personae
  •  3 Pastoral and Epic
  •  4 Gambara and Virgil
  •  5 The Revisions to the Second Edition of Caprarola (1581)
  •  6 A Note on the Verse
  •  7 A Note on the Typography and the Transcriptions
  • Caprarola : Text and Translation
  • Caprarola : Commentary to the Text
  • Caprarola : Appendices
  •  Appendix 1: The Room of Hercules, Caprarola (1569), 20:4-27:8
  •  Appendix 2: Garden Lore, Caprarola (1569), 35:10-30
  •  Appendix 3: Roma and Fame, Caprarola (1586), 178:31-179:2
  •  Appendix 4: In adventv svmmi Pont [ Ificis ] Gregorii XIII ad Arcem Caprarolae ; BAV , Vat.lat. 7192, fols. 249 v -250 v
  •  Appendix 5: Augurat opera sua fore diuturna
  •  Appendix 6: Ad Alexandrum Cardinalem Farnesium
  •  Appendix 7: In fontes hortorvm Caprarolae epigramma (1581)
  •  Appendix 8: Fountains and Sebastiano Faciuta
  • Caprarola : Commentary to the Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index.