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KORTE INHOUD
Latin-English text. ?John Barclay?s ?Argenis? has fallen into neglect in recent decades, despite its immense popularity up to the eighteenth century. This first scholarly edition prepared with great care by Riley and Huber should mark the beginning of renewed interest not only in this work but also in other Neo-Latin novels, too many of which are currently accessible only in centuries-old editions collecting dust in research libraries. The last work of the cosmopolitan poet/scholar John Barclay, the ?Argenis?, first came out in 1621 and soon became popular throughout Europe in numerous editions and translations (?). Set in the ancient Mediterranean, it is in its most basic outline a somewhat juvenile romance between Poliarchus, a prince with a secret past, and Argenis, princess of Sicily. But clustered around this is a thick mass of rival courtships, adventures, wars, and political/literary/religious debates, many of these thinly disguised commentaries on contemporary Europe. The introduction consist of shor...
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2004Uitgever: Koninklijke Van GorcumReeks: Bibliotheca latinitatis novae976 paginasISBN-10: 9023240340ISBN-13: 9789023240341Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
