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CassandraPierre de RonsardTranslated by Clive Lawrence10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 16th Century, French, Translation
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (216 pages) (Pub. Jan 2015) 9781784100100 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jan 2015) 9781784100117 £12.99 £11.69 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
The sonnet sequence Les Amours de Cassandre, first published in 1552, established Pierre de Ronsard as the outstanding French poet of his time. He was lauded by Montaigne, admired throughout Europe, and fêted by the French Crown and foreign monarchs, including Elizabeth I. Based on a real relationship with Cassandra Salviati, the sequence combines the poet’s love for an unattainable beauty with explorations of classical myth, the works of Homer and Ovid, and questions about the very nature of love, literary creation, human existence and the forces that drive the universe. Clive Lawrence’s translation, the first complete English translation, captures the range and freshness of the writer known in his lifetime as ‘Poet of Princes, Prince of Poets’.
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