The Christiad (Latin Christias) is an epic poem in six cantos on the life of Jesus Christ by Marco Girolamo (Marcus Hieronymus) Vida modeled on Virgil. It was first published in Cremona in 1535 (see 1535 in poetry). Modern Editions Vida, Marco Girolamo. The Christiad: A Latin-English Edition. Edited and translated by Gertrude C. Drake and Clarence A. Forbes. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978. Vida, Marco Girolamo. Christiad. Translated by James Gardner. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, no. 39, ed. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 2009. . References External links John Cranwell's English translation (scan) of Vida Edward Granan's translation (scan) Another Christiad (not Vida's), by Henry Kirke White (scan). A Christiad by William Alexander (scan, pp. 71sqq). Vida's Christiad in the original Latin: Marci Herionymi Vidae...Christiados Libri Sex (1536). Adam Roberts’s translation and commentary. 1535 books 16th-century poems Christian poetry Epic poems in Latin Depictions of Jesus in literature 16th-century Latin books