Clinia’s Chansonnier: a poetic translation of Jean Visagier’s love epigrams
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2020.v8.30084Keywords:
epigram, Renaissance, Neo-Latin literature, elegiac coupletAbstract
Jean Visagier, a member of the humanistic circle of Lyon, published four epigrammatic works in Latin, between 1536 and 1538. Following the classical norms of the epigram, he composed most of them in the elegiac couplet. The range of their themes is large, as it is characteristic of the genre. Leaving aside the eulogistic and vituperative epigrams, the present translation focuses on a set of 30 love epigrams, in which a puella called Clinia is the central character and represents the most diverse scenes of the relationship with the amator, as in the erotic Roman elegy. The strong tradition of Antiquity, on the other hand, is also modulated by troubadour and Petrarchan concepts. The translation adopts metrified syllabic verses. In the case of the elegiac couplet, a couplet consisting of a 12- and a 10-syllable verse was chosen.
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