‘This highly original and scholarly book calls attention to the complex interactions between colonialism and the Classical tradition in Spanish America. Andrew Laird’s “Introduction” to Landivar opens up a new vein of research for Latin studies.’ Niklas Holzberg, University of Munich
Rafael Landívar is the best known of all the poets from the Americas to write in Latin. In the Rusticatio Mexicana (1782), his masterpiece of didactic poetry, he drew extensively from Greek and Roman literature to describe in vivid epic verse the natural wonderslivelihoods and popular traditios of Mexico and his native Guatemala. This book begins with a detailed account of Mexico’s unique classical heritage, showing how humanists in colonial New Spain applied indigenous forms of knowledge and a multicultural perspective to their reading of ancient authors. Further information about Ladívar’s life and exile to Italy helps to illuminate the allegorical character of his work – and its important political dimension. This accessible study of ‘the American Virgil’ will encourage readers to discover for themselves the astonishing quality and sophistication of the Latin literature of Latin America. The present volume incorporates a complete text of the Rusticatio Mexicana (with Regenos’ transalation). Landivar’s shorter works in Latin have also been collected and translated into English for the first time.
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Rusticatio mexicana : editio altera auctior et emendatior
Landívar, Rafael
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Bolonia, Italia
Ex Typographia S. Thomae Aquinatis
1782
