Christiad
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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. Template:ISBN
- Vida, Marco Girolamo. Christiad. Translated by James Gardner. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, no. 39, ed. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 2009. Template:ISBN.
- Vida, Marco Girolamo. Christias. Introduced, edited, translated and commented by Eva von Contzen, Reinhold F. Glei, Wolfgang Polleichtner and Michael Schulze Roberg. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, vol. 91/92. 2 vols. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. Template:ISBN and Template:ISBN.
References
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- ↑ Watson Kirkconnell (1952), The Celestial Cycle: The Theme of Paradise Lost in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues, University of Toronto Press. Page 546.
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External links
- John Cranwell's English translation (scan) of Vida
- Edward Granan'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.