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The Poem of the Cid by Anonymous (Penguin classics)
One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of …
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One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of …

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as …

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Gaius Valerius Catullus: Attis (Italian language, 1999, P atron)

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