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How I wept at your hymns and songs, keenly moved by the sweet-sounding voices of your church! wrote the recently converted Augustine in his Confessions. Christians from the earliest period consecrated the hours of the day and the sacred calendar, ...

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Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and...

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One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourceb...

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Written for the choir of New College, Oxford, Ut Unum Sint! (That they may be one) sets words from St John's gospel in which Christ prays that all may be one. This was the title of Pope John Paul II's encyclical on church unity. Combining atmosphe...

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Haec Dies (This is the day which the Lord hath made) is a lively and rhythmic piece. It was commissioned by the choir of Clare College, Cambridge and has recently been recorded by them on the Harmonia Mundi label. It sets a joyful Latin text suita...

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The five comedies included in this volume, three of which have never been translated into English, present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier Paolo ...

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Federico Borromeo, Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan (15641631), is well known as a leading Catholic reformer and as the founder of the Ambrosiana library, art collection, and academy in that city. Less known is the fact that the institution's art...

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Between 1485 and 1492 Cardinal Ascanio Sforza was the recipient of a music treatise composed for him by Florentius Musicus (Florentius de Faxolis), who had served him in Naples and Rome. Now in Milan, the richly illuminated small parchment codex b...

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Humanist Tragedies, like its companion volume Humanist Comedies (ITRL 19), contains a representative sampling of Latin drama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. The five tragedies included in this volumeAlbertino Mussatos Ecerinis (1314), An...

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Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and...

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Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies--first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BCE--were imaginatively reformulated in Latin plays written by Greek p...

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Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies--first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BCE--were imaginatively reformulated in Latin plays written by Greek p...

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The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molire to mo...

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The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molire to mo...

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The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205184 bce, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molire to mo...

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The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molire to mo...

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The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205184 bc, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molire to mod...

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The first of four volumes comprising an annotated, critical edition of the complete works of William Gager of Christ Church, Oxford (1555-1622), dramatist, poet, and like Sir Philip Sydney, pamphleteer who sought to defend the theater against Puri...

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The second of four volumes that comprise an annotated critical edition of the full output (exclusively in Latin) of Elizabethan dramatist, poet, and pamphleteer William Gager (1555-1622), with facing English translations. Volume 2 contains the pla...

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The third of four volumes in the annotated critical edition of the complete works (all in Latin, with facing English translations) of Elizabethan author Gager (1555-1622), dramatist, poet, and pamphleteer who sought to defend the theater against P...

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A two-volume set. Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assu...

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This play is a unique text for students in their first semester of Latin. Each scene uses new forms and vocabulary, thus reinforcing the students? grasp of grammar by placing it in a living context. At the same time it provides an enticing introdu...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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