The ''Christiad'' (Latin Christias) is an

epic poem An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. ...

in six

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s on the life of

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, names and titles), was ...

by Marco Girolamo (Marcus Hieronymus) Vida modeled on

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: t ...

. It was first published in

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in 1535 (see

1535 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Baptista Mantuanus' ''Eclogues'' prescribed for schoolboys studying Latin poetry in Braunschweig; at the same time ...

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. * Vida, Marco Girolamo. ''Christiad''. Translated by James Gardner. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, no. 39, ed. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 2009. .

References

External links

* John Cranwell'
English translation (scan) of Vida
*

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translation
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Another ''Christiad'' (not Vida's)
by

Henry Kirke White Henry Kirke White (21 March 1785 – 19 October 1806) was an English poet and hymn-writer. He died at the young age of 21. Life White was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended. However, he was greatl ...

(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’
translation and commentary
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