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Author Gwynne, Paul G

Title Francesco Benci's Quinque Martyres : Introduction, Translation and Commentary
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (755 pages)
Series Jesuit Studies
Jesuit studies
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; The Scope of this Book; A Note on the Text and Commentary; A Note on the Vocabulary; Part 1 Francesco Benci and the Heroic Impulse; Francesco Benci, Professor of Rhetoric; The Portuguese and Jesuits in Goa and Salcete; The Five Companions: Talis ab Vrlini coetus se fuderat urbe (QM. 5.606); Synopsis of the Quinque martyres; The Quinque martyres and the Epic Tradition; Benci and Virgil; Amplificatio; Benci and Contemporary Neo-Latin Epic: Vida's Christiad and Barga's Syrias
Ekphrasis in the Quinque martyresThe Later Reception of the Quinque martyres; Part 2 The Quinque martyres; Book 1. Text and Translation; Book 2. Text and Translation; Book 3. Text and Translation; Book 4. Text and Translation; Book 5. Text and Translation; Book 6. Text and Translation; Commentary; Appendix 1. Prefatory Letter and Liminary Verses; Appendix 2. A Poetic Altercation and Reconciliation; Appendix 3. Report of the Massacre by Niccolò Orlandini (Latin); Appendix 4. Report of the Massacre by Alessandro Valignano (Italian)
Appendix 5. Verses below the Five Engravings of English Martyrdom Prefaced to Ecclesiae militantis triumphiAppendix 6. Commendatory Verses by Aurelio Orsi; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Benci, Francesco, -1542-1594.-Quinque martyres e Societate Iesu in India
Jesuits-India-Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004356610
9004356614