1. Catullus
by Mario Petrucci (translating Gaius Valerius Catullus) 
Price: USD 16.32
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Description: ISBN10: 1905649002, ISBN13: 9781905649006, [publisher: Perdika Press] Softcover Rare. Signed by translator Mario Petrucci, 8 clever and lively "contemporary adaptations with the originals facing" of poems by Catullus: (70) Lesbia would rather, (32) Call me, (69) I am amazed, (23) Furius the way you talk, (5) Live and Let Love Lesbia!, (48) Honey - when it comes, (7) Lesbia why inquire and (11) May each adulterer. A 24-page pamphlet, nicely printed on high-quality paper, with a pleasingly tactile cover. As it says on the copyright page: "Some of these adaptations first appeared in Agenda and have been broadcast on Resonance FM". So there's the right mix of highbrow gate-keeping and entertaining crowd-pleasing. "Mellitos oculos tuos Iuuenti / siquis me sinat usque basiare", for example, is faced with "Honey - when it comes to kissing / we'd outscore Juventus. That goal / of love is in your eyes!" In very good condition, with just a few specks and smudges of shelf wear, close overall to being Near Fine. [Bridport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]