85:, who was famous for weaving the other liberal arts into his lectures on philosophy. A quarrel with his father and a mystically based sense of calling led Mantuan to enter a reformed branch of the Carmelite order in 1463. During the 1470s he studied theology and taught at the monastery of San Martino in
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and poetry in "October" draws thematically from
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compounded of personal observation and the conventions of medieval pastoral art. Schoolmasters commonly used the poems because of their relatively easy Latin and attractive subject matter (the opening eclogues deal with love, a topic one educator notes of interest to all young men). An attack on
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Mantuan celebrated in epic language the lives of Mary as well as Catherine of Alexandria and other Roman Catholic saints. The first successful humanist attempt to do so, these poems set a precedent for epic treatments of religious subjects as diverse as
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eclogue, has been seen to proclaim a harsh “Mantuanesque” world that
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The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and
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in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The collection was twice translated into
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