Long Live Latin

The Pleasures of a Useless Language

Professor Nicola Gardini (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
9781781259405 (ISBN)

Infos

Latin has given us so much, from Virgil's Aeneid to Ovid's Metamorphoses, from some of the world's most enduring stories to the words we use everyday. And yet we call it dead. Oxford academic Nicola Gardini argues the case for its vitality and value, offering a personal and passionate defence of its beauty and future. From ancient writers we can learn about such vital aspects of life as love, purpose, eloquence, beauty and loss. These lessons from the past can illuminate our present, and Gardini encourages us to dig to the roots of our own language to consider how Latin has influenced the ways in which we communicate, think and live today. A timely reminder that not everything needs to be 'leveraged', 'optimised' or 'efficient' - some things enrich our lives by simply being part of them.

A formidable mix of history, memoir and criticism, this is a beautiful love letter to one language that ultimately celebrates the vital power of all literature.

Autor

Nicola Gardini fell in love with Latin as a child, through reading and listening to his mother sing Latin hymns. Following a lifetime of study, he now teaches Italian Literature at the University of Oxford and continues to pass on his love for the country's other 'dead' language. He also writes poetry and fiction, has published several collections of verse and three novels, of which The Lost Words of Amelia Lynd was awarded the Viareggio prize in 2012.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-13: 9781781259405 / 9781781259405
• Zustand: Neuware