Eclogues

Boccaccio's pastoral poems, the Latin eclogues he wrote in the fourteenth century, appear here in their original language beside a English rendering. Shepherds speak in verse as the poet follows the convention of Virgil's pastoral work. The edition is supported by commentary that situates the poems within Boccaccio's career, weighs his literary aims, and traces the classical and medieval sources he drew on and the writers who later took them up.