Latinitas viva. Wörterbücher/Datenbanken. Sachwissen. Allgemeine Sites Latein. Carmina Burana. The poems presented here are those which have been set to music by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982).
They form only a small part of the whole Carmina Burana, the name applied to a large collection of medieval poems which survive in a late medieval manuscript found in the early nineteenth century in southern Germany. These poems, which come to more than two hundred in number but are never of any great length, can be roughly classified as follows: (i) Moralistic and satirical poems, the former being concerned with the human condition and the world at large, the latter with abuses in the church.
(ii) Love songs and songs celebrating the return of spring. (iii) Songs connected with drinking and gambling.
Cicero. Petron. Ovid. Ovid Illustrated: the Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Image and Text. Caesar. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric.