Venantius Fortunatus: Poems

Venantius Fortunatus, Poems, edited and translated by Michael Roberts, published by Harvard University Press in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series, volume 46, in 2017, is the standard modern critical scholarly edition and translation of the sixth century Latin poet's surviving work. Its authority rests on the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library's established peer-reviewed editorial standards for critical bilingual editions and Roberts's own standing as a specialist in late antique Latin poetry. It is the primary text itself in translation, authoritative for what Fortunatus wrote, though the historical and liturgical context around individual poems, such as their use in hymnody, may need a separate specialist source.