Vitsentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos: A Translation with Introduction and Notes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781876503123)

During the later years of the Venetian occupation of Crete (1211-1669) the island enjoyed the intellectual and cultural stimulus of the Renaissance. This bore fruit not only in the work of painters such as Dominikos Theotokopoulos, alias El Greco, but also in poetry, where Vitsentzos Kornaros composed the most important work of early modern Greek literature, Erotokritos. Written c. 1600, this romance takes over the theme of a minor French poem, Paris et Vienne of Pierre de la Cyp de, and puts it in a Hellenic setting where knights, both Greek and foreign, come to joust in an imaginary pre-christian Athens. It is here presented for the first time in a complete English prose translation with a scholarly introduction and notes.

Author: Gavin Betts
ISBN-10: 1876503122
ISBN-13: 9781876503123
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2004
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70d