Allen Mandelbaum
American poet and professor of literature, translator from Latin and Italian
Allen Mandelbaum (May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator.
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Quotes
edit- I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
had made him fugitive; he was the first
to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
as Italy and the Lavinian shores.- Book I, lines 1–4
- For other peoples will, I do not doubt,
still cast their bronze to breathe with softer features,
or draw out of the marble living lines,
plead causes better, trace the ways of heaven
with wands and tell the rising constellations;
but yours will be the rulership of nations,
remember Roman, these will be your arts:
to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer,
to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud.- Book VI, lines 1129–1137
- Euryalus, is it
the gods who put this fire in our minds,
or is it that each man's relentless longing
becomes a god to him?- Book IX, lines 243–246
