About this book
Eclogae (Eclogues) by Giovanni del Vergilio invites listeners into a refined poetic exchange—the Latin correspondence in verse between Giovanni (Iohannes) and Dante Alighieri, rendered in elegant hexameters. These four short poems—two by Dante and two replies attributed to Giovanni del Vergilio—pay deliberate homage to Vergil, echoing the bucolic intimacy of the Eclogues while drawing on the Georgics and the Aeneid to create a layered, classical dialogue.
Believed to have been composed in the last years of Dante’s life and first published in 1719, the poems fuse pastoral imagery, learned allusion, and the wit of epistolary fiction, offering a compact showcase of medieval humanism meeting antique form. The audiobook presents each Latin original followed by H. E. Plumptre’s English translation, making the lyrical structure and rhetorical subtlety accessible to modern listeners without losing the music of the original hexameters.
Ideal for readers and listeners of historical fiction, epistolary literature, classical revival, or anyone studying Dante, Latin poetry, or Vergilian influence—this audiobook is a rewarding immersion in poetic dialogue, scholarly homage, and timeless pastoral craft.
