Song of the Bison: Text and Translation of Nicolaus Hussovianus’s &quot;Carmen de statura, feritate, ac venatione bisontis&quot;

Frederick J. Booth

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1h9dm7p

Zusammenfassung

In 1521, the young Polish diplomat Nicolaus Hussovianus was watching the bullfights at a papal celebration in Rome. He remarked that the spectacle reminded him of the bison hunts he had witnessed as a young man in the Polish-Lithuanian woods, and his employer then asked Hussovianus to write a poem about the bison hunts, to accompany the gift of a stuffed bison for Pope Leo X, an avid hunter.
Song of the Bison is the first complete English translation of Hussovianus’s Latin poem, which is claimed as a national epic by Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland. The exciting poem discusses not only Hussovianus’s own experience in hunting and observing the European bison, but also the political, social, religious, and aesthetic developments of sixteenth-century Europe, and ends with an urgent plea for unity among European states threatened by foreign invasions.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage: 1/2021
Copyrightjahr: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-64189-336-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-64189-337-4
Verlag: Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe: Foundations
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 100
Produkttyp: Sammelband

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. Author’s Note and Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 30
Translated Text: ‘Song of the Bison’ Kein Zugriff Seiten 31 - 52
Latin Original: Carmen de statura, feritate ac venatione bisontis Kein Zugriff Seiten 53 - 80
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 81 - 84
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 85 - 88