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Propertius Sextus . ?50--?15 bc, Roman elegiac poet How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I don't regret my Latin--some of the writers are marvelous: Propertius, Vergil, Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Petronius, and some of Juvenal. Its Petrarchan motifs emerge in canzone 1, "Tra questi boschi agresti, / Selvaggi, aspri & incolti" (In these woods, wild, uncivilized, harsh, uncultivated), a poem that acknowledges its debt not just to Virgil but to Propertius and to Dante as well, and especially to political complexities embedded in the latter's Commedia. The pan-European craze for imitating his writings would have repell ed that fastidious reader of Horace, Propertius, and Virgil, who labored to construct a fiction of his own separation from the crowd. |
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