Presented in their original medieval Latin and with commentary and notes in English, this is a translation of thirty poems fromCarmina Burana.
TheCarmina Buranais a collection of poems, songs and sung religious drama from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Often described as the work of wandering scholars, it actually contains many pieces by famous clerics of the period. The verses are lively, uninhibited celebrations of the joys of wine, women and gambling, but there are also serious poems on the pains of love and the moral corruption of the Church.
This is a translation of thirty poems from Carmina Burana .
P.G Walshwas Professor of Latin at the University of Glasgow, UK, and elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He translated
The Satyriconand
The Golden Ass, and authored
Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods(also published by Bloomsbury).
Introduction
Abbreviations
Poems (The Numbers In Brackets Refer To The Hilka-Schurnann-Flischoff Edition)
Cum 'in orbern universum' (219)
II Estuans intrinsecus (191)
Ill In Taberna (196)
IV Exul ego clericus (129)
v Omittamus studia (75)
VI Deus pater, adiuva (127)
VII Dulce solum (119)
VIII Letabundus rediit (74)
IX Tempus adest floridum (142)
X Amor habet superos (98)
XI Transit nix et glacies (113)
XII Tempus accedit floridum (114)
X Ill Dum Diane (62)
XIV O comes arnoris (111)
XV Hue usgue me rniseram (126)
XVI Omnia sol ternperat (136)
XVII love cum Mercurio (88a)
XVIII Lingua mendax et dolosa (117)
XIX Vola virum vivere (178)
XX Dum curata vegetarem (105)
XXI Lucis orto sidere (157)
XXII Festivali sub fervore (79)
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