Christiad

The Christiad (Latin Christias) is an epic poem in six cantos on the life of Jesus Christ by Marco Girolamo (Marcus Hieronymus) Vida modeled on Virgil. It was first published in Cremona in 1535 (see 1535 in poetry).^[1]

Modern Editions[]

• Vida, Marco Girolamo. The Christiad: A Latin-English Edition. Edited and translated by Gertrude C. Drake and Clarence A. Forbes. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-8093-0814-2
• Vida, Marco Girolamo. Christiad. Translated by James Gardner. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, no. 39, ed. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03408-2.

References[]

External links[]

• John Cranwell's English translation (scan) of Vida
• 's translation (scan)
• Another Christiad (not Vida's), by Henry Kirke White (scan).
• A Christiad by William Alexander (scan, pp. 71sqq).
• Vida's Christiad in the original Latin: Marci Herionymi Vidae...Christiados Libri Sex (1536).
• Adam Roberts’s translation and commentary.

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