Orpheus, the metamorphoses of a myth

General notes

Bibliography: p. [231] Includes index

Contents

Famous Orpheus / Emmet Robbins -- The Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid / W.S. Anderson -- The songs of Orpheus and the new song of Christ / Eleanor Irwin -- Sparagmos / Patricia Vicari -- Orpheus and Ficino / John Warden -- The myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance art, 1400-1600 / Giuseppe Scavizzi -- Orfeo and Euridice, the first two operas / Timothy J. McGee -- Orpheus and the Devil in Calderón's El Divino Orfeo c1634 / Pedro León -- The triumph of art, the triumph of death / Patricia Vicari