Description: Offers an accessible translation and detailed commentary of Piccolomini's only comedy, Chrysis.
Brief description: Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (2012) with Luke Houghton.
Review Quotes: "A very thorough edition of an early Renaissance comedy which uses the language and conventions of Plautus and Terence and applies them to contemporary life." --Mark T. Riley, Emeritus Professor of Classics, California State University-Sacramento, USA