Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France

by Paul White

Ovid's Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent lovers, held a particular fascination for Renaissance readers. To understand their responses to these letters, we must ask exactly how and in what contexts those readers first encountered them: were they read in Latin or in the vernacular; as source texts for the learning of grammar and history or as love poetry; as epistolary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814257011
• ISBN13: 9780814257012
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"