This volume contains a translation into English of all the major love poetry of the Renaissance neo-Latin poet, Johannes Secundus, and a detailed critical appreciation of the first two books of his elegies and the Elegiae Sollemnes . The book consists of an introduction (on the poet’s life and works, characters in and dating of the amatory elegies, literary background, and more) facing Latin text and English translation of the Elegies , brief explanatory notes and full essays of appreciation, an appendix with a translation into English of the Basia and Epithalamium, and an index. There is information about Secundus’ models, wit, style, sound, diction, placement, structure, manipulation of characters and themes, and generic innovation.