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Eclogues (Eclogae)

Dante Alighieri

This book is in Latin.

The Latin verse exchange between Dante and the Bolognese master Giovanni del Virgilio (1319-1320), in hexameters: Giovanni’s epistle urging Dante to write in Latin, Dante’s first Eclogue in reply, Giovanni’s responsive Eclogue, and Dante’s second Eclogue. The two poems by Giovanni del Virgilio are titled under his name. Text of La Wikisource.

Contents

Source: Four poems in the order of the correspondence. The wiki markup and the cross-reference note are dropped. The English of Wicksteed and Gardner (1902) is OCR only and is not imported.