Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance.Moss, Ann, ed. Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance. (Library of Renaissance Humanism Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as humanism) was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the 14th century. Initially a humanist was simply a teacher of Latin literature. .) Signal Mountain: Summertown, 1999. xv + 260 pp. bibl, index. $45. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 1-893009-02-5. Designed to provide insight into "Renaissance habits of reading and writing poetic fiction," this chronologically ordered compendium contains sixteenth and seventeenth-century commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as a brief introductory analysis of each. In order to facilitate comparison, and provide a sense of how commentators served as "purveyors of accepted norms of reading," the volume includes translations of Renaissance commentaries appended to three of Ovid's fables (Apollo and Daphne Apollo and Daphne is a story from ancient Greek mythology, retold by Hellenistic and Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette; Thomas Bulfinch drew on those late sources in the following manner:
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