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"These cantigas, in Zenith’s hands, remind me that a poetry’s message is its music."鈥擩esse Nathan, McSweeney's

"Zenith helps provide a roadmap to appreciate some of the idiosyncratic aspects of the medieval language while also allowing himself the freedom to interpret the cantigas without a priority for overly literal translation. . . . Zenith’s phrasing conveys the love-sickness, anguish, jealousy, danger and fear that pulse through the original poems."鈥擩acob Abell, Reading in Translation

"Delightful. . . . A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain."鈥�Portuguese American Journal

"Zenith is to be congratulated for an authoritative, attractive and highly readable presentation of these songs to a twenty-first-century anglophone audience."鈥擠avid Frier, Times Literary Supplement

"This edition will bring this considerably large lyric corpus to the attention of a much wider circle of readers. It is a volume that deserves to be in the library of every medievalist."鈥擩osiah Blackmore, Speculum

鈥�Cantigas opens a new vista onto a famous European poetic tradition. Richard Zenith鈥檚 introduction is a rich trove of history and insight, and his translations are revelations in terms of how deftly they capture the lyrical combination of verbal artistry and incantatory resonance.鈥濃�擩ohn Keene, translator of Hilda Hilst鈥檚 Letters from a Seducer

鈥淭ranslated with elegance and wit, Cantigas is a brilliant accomplishment. Richard Zenith is the most celebrated and versatile translator from Portuguese working today.鈥濃�擜nna M. Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth