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unusual facts about Latin poetry



1607 in poetry

Sir John Harington, translator (from the Latin of Johannes de Mediolano's Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum), The Englishmans Doctor; or, The Schole of Salerne

1678 in poetry

Henry Vaughan, Thalia Rediviva, including previously published works and Latin poems by Henry's brother, Thomas Vaughan


see also

Chronovisor

Using the chronovisor, Ernetti said that he had witnessed, among other scenes, a performance in Rome in 169 BCE of the lost tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin poetry, Quintus Ennius.

Jacopo Sannazaro

The distinguished Latinist Michael C. J. Putnam has recently published the first translation of all of Sannazaro's Latin poetry.