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Text and Context Ser.: Renaissance Postscripts : Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France by Paul White (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Ovid's Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent lovers, held a particular fascination for Renaissance readers. To understand their responses to these letters, we must ask exactly how and in what contexts those readers first encountered them: were they read in Latin or in the vernacular; as source texts for the learning of grammar and history or as love poetry; as epistolary and rhetorical models or as moral examples?.