Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Polemical Preface V
3. Contents XI
4. I. Life and Works 1
5. II. Vida's Ars Poetica and Vergilian Humanism 40
6. III. The Vergilian Framework 87
7. IV. The Vergilian Style 114
8. V. Character, Story, and Structure: Dramatic Vs. Oratorical Imagination 163
9. VI. Thematic Design in the Christiad·, Vida's Essential Vergilianism 202
10. VII. Cremona's Trump 280
11. Appendix: Summary of the Christiad 287
12. Notes 295
13. Selective Bibliography of Vida's Works 349
14. General Bibliography 352
15. General Index 361
16. Index of Major Quoted Passages 370