An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c . 1490 to c . 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance and early modern period.An appealing feature of Renaissance and early modern Latinity is the composition of fine Neo-Latin poetry by major classical scholars, and the interface between this creative work and their scholarly research. In some cases, the two are actually combined in the same work. In others, the creative composition and scholarship accompany each other along parallel tracks, when scholars are moved to write their own verse in the style of the subjects of their academic endeavours. In still further cases, early modern scholars produced fine Latin verse as a result of the act of translation, as they attempted to render ancient Greek poetry in a fitting poetic form for their contemporary readers of Latin.>

Auteur

William Barton is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series. Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, UK, Senior Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series. Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She is a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series. Bobby Xinyue is Lecturer in Roman Culture at King's College London, UK, and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series.

Contenu

List of Contributors Preface Introduction, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) 1. Poems of Printed Books: The Case of Niccolo Perotti's (1430-1480) Cornu Copiae, Marianne Pade (Aarhus University, Denmark) 2. The Natalis of Paolo Marsi (1440-1484), Raphael Schwitter (University of Bonn, Germany) 3. The Verses of Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) on the Philologist's Work of the Philologist and the Place of Greek, William M. Barton (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 4. Aldus Manutius (c. 1450-1515), Musarum Panagyris and Other Early Poems, Oren Margolis (University of East Anglia, UK) 5. An Elegiac Poem by Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558) on Sickness and Healing, Bobby Xinyue (King's College London, UK) 6. Two Poems by Pietro Vettori (1499-1585), Agnese D'Angelo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 7. Jean Dorat (1508-1588): The Latin Lyrics of a Greek Professor, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Janus Dousa (1545-1604): The Satires of a Dutch Scholar, David Andrew Porter (Hunan Normal University, China) 9. Editing Cicero (and Translating Aratus) in 16th Century Europe: Jan Kochanowski (1579) and Hugo Grotius (1600), Daniele Pellacani (University of Bologna, Italy) 10. John Barclay (1582-1621): The Argenis as a Station Scholar's Novel, Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK) 11. Spare Muses: Epigrams by the Cambridge Don James Duport (1606-1678), Thomas Matthew Vozar (**University of Hamburg, Germany) 12. Writing a Woman Scholar: Poems Around Birgitte Thott (1610-1662), Trine Arlund Hass (University of Oxford, UK) 13. The Plinian Dolphin: Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761), Carmina, Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK) 14. Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), Reditus Augusti, an Horatian Mime, Francesco Citti (University of Bologna, Italy) Notes Bibliography Index