page_title: Pervigilium Veneris
hierarchical_section_title: Pervigilium Veneris
caption_attribution_description: English: The 6th (and last) text page of the Pervigilium Veneris in codex V, the Codex Sannazarii or Codex Vindobonensis 9401, a Humanistic manuscript written by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro. Deutsch: Sechste (und letzte) Textseite des Pervigilium Veneris in Codex V, dem Codex Sannazarii bzw. Codex Vindobonensis 9401, einer Renaissance-Handschrift des Dichters Jacopo Sannazaro.
context_page_description: Pervigilium Veneris is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries.
  It is sometimes thought to have been by the poet Tiberianus, because of strong similarities with his poem Amnis ibat, though other scholars attribute it to Publius Annius Florus, and yet others find no sufficient evidence for any attribution. It was written professedly in early spring on the eve of a three-night festival of Venus in a setting that seems to be Sicily. The poem describes the annual awakening of the vegetable and animal world through the "benign post-Lucretian" goddess, which contrasts with the tragic isolation of the silent "I" of the poet/speaker against the desolate background of a ruined city, a vision that prompts Andrea Cucchiarelli to note the resemblance of the poem's construction to the cruelty of a dream. It is notable for its Romanticism which marks a transition between Classical Roman poetry and medieval poetry. It consists of ninety-three verses in trochaic septenarius, and is divided into strophes of unequal length by the refrain:
  Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit cras amet.
context_section_description: Pervigilium Veneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries. 
  It is sometimes thought to have been by the poet Tiberianus, because of strong similarities with his poem Amnis ibat, though other scholars attribute it to Publius Annius Florus, and yet others find no sufficient evidence for any attribution. It was written professedly in early spring on the eve of a three-night festival of Venus (probably April 1–3) in a setting that seems to be Sicily. The poem describes the annual awakening of the vegetable and animal world through the "benign post-Lucretian" goddess, which contrasts with the tragic isolation of the silent "I" of the poet/speaker against the desolate background of a ruined city, a vision that prompts Andrea Cucchiarelli to note the resemblance of the poem's construction to the cruelty of a dream. It is notable for its Romanticism which marks a transition between Classical Roman poetry and medieval poetry. It consists of ninety-three verses in trochaic septenarius, and is divided into strophes of unequal length by the refrain:
  Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit cras amet.
  
  Let the one love tomorrow who has never loved, and let the one who has loved love tomorrow.
  
  Or by Parnell:
  
  Let those love now who never loved before,
  
  Let those who always lov'd, now love the more.
  The poem ends with the nightingale's song, and a poignant expression of personal sorrow:
  illa cantat; nos tacemus; quando ver venit meum?
  
  She sings; we are silent; when will my springtime come?
caption: End of the poem in a humanistic manuscript (codex V)
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