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M. Marvli Delmatae Davidias
Series: - Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, Volume: 33
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The Christian monumental historic-heroic epic Davidiad is the masterpiece of the prolific Croat Humanist Marko Marulić (Marcus Marulus, 1450-1524). The poem, comprising 6765 Latin hexameters, and divided into 14 books, was never published, and eventually even thought to be lost. Marulić's autograph resurfaced in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin, although it had been heavily damaged during the huge fire in January 1904. For the present edition the author has collated the original manuscript in Turin, made additional corrections, adopting the suggestions of Veljko Gortan, and reduced his first edition (1957, Mérida) to an absolutely necessary minimum. He has also enclosed a brief Vita Maruli, written by Marulić's contemporary Latin poet of Split, Franjo Božičević (Franciscus Natalis, 1469-1542).
Miroslav Marcovich taught at a number of universities, most recently that of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He has authored some twenty books and more than three hundred scholarly articles. In the last two decades of his life he prepared major critical editions of several patristic authors.
“beautifully produced...expertly edited”, Theo Christchev in Medium Aevum, 2007, Vol. 76 Issue 1, p163-164
Preface vii
Facsimilia xi
Davidias
Liber I 1
Liber II 21
Liber III 36
Liber IV 51
Liber V 65
Liber VI 79
Liber VII 92
Liber VIII 106
Liber IX 120
Liber X 133
Liber XI 148
Liber XII 160
Liber XIII 173
Liber XIV 185
Tropologica Davidiadis expositio 197
Appendix 215
Indices 223
Facsimilia xi
Davidias
Liber I 1
Liber II 21
Liber III 36
Liber IV 51
Liber V 65
Liber VI 79
Liber VII 92
Liber VIII 106
Liber IX 120
Liber X 133
Liber XI 148
Liber XII 160
Liber XIII 173
Liber XIV 185
Tropologica Davidiadis expositio 197
Appendix 215
Indices 223
Academic libraries, specialists and students of Latin epic poetry (classical, medieval and modern), and specialists and students of Christian poetry.