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Venantius Fortunatus: Personal and Political Poems
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Series: Translated Texts for Historians, Book 23
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ISBN10: 0853231796
ISBN13: 9780853231790
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 29 1996
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780853231790
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 29 1996
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
Venantius Fortunatus, writing in the latter half of the sixth century, was not only a major Latin poet, but also an important historical figure. He travelled as a young man to seek patronage in the courts of Merovingian Gaul, writing both formal and informal poetry for three of the royal brothers, Sigibert, Charibert and Chilperic, and for many influential figures in ecclesiastical and secular life. His poems paint a picture of a literary, not merely literate, culture, which complement's Gregory's canvas of bloodthirsty dynastic feuding.
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