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Odes
Jeroni Zanné (Barcelona, 1873 – Buenos Aires, 1934) és una de les grans figures del Modernisme. Autor d’una extensa obra en prosa i en vers (aquesta darrera, ja publicada a Trípode), des del seu exili argentí també va traduir els dos primers llibres de les Odes d’Horaci. La traducció de les Odes va passar molt desapercebuda (fins al punt que el llibre II ha romàs inèdit fins ara). Tanmateix, s’inscriu en l’esforç d’alguns dels nostres millors poetes per adaptar els ritmes clàssics al català, i presenta solucions d’una gran bellesa i perfecció formal.
«El cisellador de sonets bellíssims, l’escriptor dels mots definitius, segons particular qualificació de Raimon Casellas, el poeta que tant va distingir-se de jove pel seu amor al bell equilibri, a la justa ponderació de formes i de ritmes, tradueix en l’edat madura les odes del gran clàssic llatí, i se’ns manifesta tanmateix ben conseqüent amb el seu credo de sempre», Lluís Via
«El cisellador de sonets bellíssims, l’escriptor dels mots definitius, segons particular qualificació de Raimon Casellas, el poeta que tant va distingir-se de jove pel seu amor al bell equilibri, a la justa ponderació de formes i de ritmes, tradueix en l’edat madura les odes del gran clàssic llatí, i se’ns manifesta tanmateix ben conseqüent amb el seu credo de sempre», Lluís Via
224 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2020
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Roman lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus exerted a major influence on English poetry.
(December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC)
Horace, the son of a freed slave, who owned a small farm, later moved to Rome to work as a coactor, a middleman between buyers and sellers at auctions, receiving 1% of the purchase price for his services. The father ably spent considerable money on education of his son, accompanied him first to Rome for his primary education, and then sent him to Athens to study Greek and philosophy.
After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought as a staff officer (tribunus militum) in the battle of Philippi. Alluding to famous literary models, he later claimed to throw away his shield and to flee for his salvation. When people declared an amnesty for those who fought against the victorious Octavian Augustus, Horace returned to Italy, only to find his estate confiscated and his father likely then dead. Horace claims that circumstances reduced him to poverty.
Nevertheless, he meaningfully gained a profitable lifetime appointment as a scriba quaestorius, an official of the Treasury; this appointment allowed him to practice his poetic art.
Horace was a member of a literary circle that included Virgil and Lucius Varius Rufus, who introduced him to Maecenas, friend and confidant of Augustus. Maecenas became his patron and close friend and presented Horace with an estate near Tibur in the Sabine Hills (contemporary Tivoli). A few months after the death of Maecenas, Horace died in Rome. Upon his death bed, Horace with no heirs relinquished his farm to Augustus, his friend and the emperor, for imperial needs, and it stands today as a spot of pilgrimage for his admirers.
(December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC)
Horace, the son of a freed slave, who owned a small farm, later moved to Rome to work as a coactor, a middleman between buyers and sellers at auctions, receiving 1% of the purchase price for his services. The father ably spent considerable money on education of his son, accompanied him first to Rome for his primary education, and then sent him to Athens to study Greek and philosophy.
After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought as a staff officer (tribunus militum) in the battle of Philippi. Alluding to famous literary models, he later claimed to throw away his shield and to flee for his salvation. When people declared an amnesty for those who fought against the victorious Octavian Augustus, Horace returned to Italy, only to find his estate confiscated and his father likely then dead. Horace claims that circumstances reduced him to poverty.
Nevertheless, he meaningfully gained a profitable lifetime appointment as a scriba quaestorius, an official of the Treasury; this appointment allowed him to practice his poetic art.
Horace was a member of a literary circle that included Virgil and Lucius Varius Rufus, who introduced him to Maecenas, friend and confidant of Augustus. Maecenas became his patron and close friend and presented Horace with an estate near Tibur in the Sabine Hills (contemporary Tivoli). A few months after the death of Maecenas, Horace died in Rome. Upon his death bed, Horace with no heirs relinquished his farm to Augustus, his friend and the emperor, for imperial needs, and it stands today as a spot of pilgrimage for his admirers.
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