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- Title
Lesbia and Candida Venustae: The Beloved as Aesthetic Ideal in Catullus and Beza.
- Authors
MacAskill, Annick
- Abstract
The article focuses on the aesthetics of the poems of poet and historian Catallus and the scholarly works of theologian Theodore Beza. Topics discussed include the contribution of Catullus to the Renaissance literature, the characteristics of Neo-Latin poets, the Lesbia poems, and the association of these poems with the theories of Beza.
- Subjects
AESTHETICS of art; CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius, ca. 84 B.C.-54 B.C.; POETRY appreciation; LATIN poets; RENAISSANCE literature; LITERARY theory
- Publication
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
1073-0508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12138-016-0432-4