by Publius Ovidius Naso · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854166318
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«L'arte di amare» (Ars Amatoria) is Ovid's didactic poem, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (128 pages, in Italian and Latin).
The Ars Amatoria is a manual in elegiac verse that instructs on the art of seducing and maintaining love in ancient Rome, with advice aimed at men and women. Ovid describes courtship with irony and sharpness, treating it as a technique comparable to oratory or military strategy.
Complete edition published in 2014, including the Latin text and the Italian translation by Cesare Vivaldi.
For readers of classical literature and Latin poetry, as well as those interested in the culture of ancient Rome.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
