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A wonderful achievement. The Latin poetry of Baroque popes has never been so readable. Nixon's heroic couplets and lexical pyrotechnics bring this verse, on topics high and low, within easy reach. Here is translation as creation, at a high level, and what delights it offers. --John J. Kinder, University of Western Australia Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644) and Fabio Chigi (1599-1667), Popes Urban VIII and Alexander VII respectively, embracing everything from a humorous poem on the gift of a cat to devout meditations on the Lord's Passion, then let translator Dom Robert, a true master of English prosody of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, be your very able impresario. --Anna Silvas, University of New England, Australia Walking in the footsteps of his Benedictine forebears, Dom Robert Nixon has rendered an immense service to classical education. These exceptional translations of two great popes both convey the meditative aura of the originals and incite to return to them. May they help rediscovery of Latin as part of a living tradition--vehicle of history, culture, and faith--especially through its use in the liturgy. --Pius Mary Noonan, OSB, Notre Dame Priory, Tasmania

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Robert Nixon is a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity, New Norcia, Western Australia, and a Catholic priest. His roles include director of the New Norcia Institute for Benedictine Studies, as well as dean and liturgy coordinator for the monastic community. He has contributed articles on medieval Latin poetry to the Revue b�n�dictine and the American Benedictine Review.

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