A01=Thomas P. Roche Jr.
Author_Thomas P. Roche Jr.
BEP
Category=DSB
Category=DSC
Class
classical reception studies
conn
early modern women writers
English literary history
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Er Brother
eye
Fa King
female translators in seventeenth century
fi1
Fi1 Ch
Generous Foule
hich
IJ
IOI
ire
italian
livius
mine
Petrarchan poetry analysis
poetic allegory interpretation
Renaissance translation studies
Tie
titus
Titus Livius
trey
Vas
Product details
- ISBN 9780754631064
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Little is known of Anna Hume except as the translator of the first three of Petrach's Trionfi and also as the daughter of David Hume of Godscroft whose History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus she edited in one of its troubled versions. This volume reprints her translation of Petrarch's The Triumphs of Love - a series of six poems celebrating Petrarch's purported devotion to Laura. The poems tell a tale of Love's triumph over the poet, superseded by the triumph of chastity (in that Laura did not yield to Petrarch's love) which is in turn superseded by the triumph of death over Laura. Hume's 1644 translation is reproduced here with five related texts as appendices - an emblem and poem by Robert Farley; the translation of The Triumph of Eternitie by Elizabeth I; the translation of The Triumph of Death by Mary Sidney Herbert; illustrations from Il Petrarcha con l'espositione di M. Alessandro Vellutello...and the translation of lines 102-172 of The Triumph of Death by Barbarina Ogle Brand, Lady Dacre.
Thomas J. Roche Jr. is Professor of English at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
