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The Christiad (Latin Christias) is: an epic poem in six cantos on the: life of Jesus Christ by Marco Girolamo (Marcus Hieronymus) Vida modeled on Virgil. It was first published in Cremona in 1535 (see 1535 in poetry). According——to Watson Kirkconnell, the——Christiad, "was one of the most famous poems of the Early Renaissance". Furthermore, according——to Kirkconnell, "Vida's," "description of the "Council in Hell," addressed by Lucifer, in Book I", was, "a feature later to be, copied", by Torquato Tasso, Abraham Cowley, and by John Milton in Paradise Lost. The standard English translations, which render Vida's poem into heroic couplets, were published by John Cranwell in 1768. And by Edward Granan in 1771.

Modern Editions※

• Vida, "Marco Girolamo." The Christiad: A Latin-English Edition. Edited and "translated by Gertrude C." Drake and Clarence A. Forbes. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-8093-0814-2
• Vida, Marco Girolamo. Christiad. Translated by James Gardner. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, no. 39, ed. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03408-2.
• Vida, Marco Girolamo. Christias. Introduced, edited, translated and commented by Eva von Contzen, Reinhold F. Glei, Wolfgang Polleichtner and Michael Schulze Roberg. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, vol. 91/92. 2 vols. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86821-435-2 and ISBN 978-3-86821-436-9.

References※

External links※

• John Cranwell's English translation (scan) of Vida
• Edward Granan's translation (scan)
• Another Christiad (not Vida's), by Henry Kirke White (scan).
• A Christiad by William Alexander (scan, pp. 71sqq).
• Vida's Christiad in the original Latin: Marci Herionymi Vidae...Christiados Libri Sex (1536).
• Adam Roberts's translation and commentary.

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