An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

Stephen Harrison, Gesine Manuwald, William M. Barton, Bobby Xinyue, Stephen Harrison, Gesine Manuwald, William M. Barton, Bobby Xinyue

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781350379442
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350379466
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle page
• BLOOMSBURY NEO-LATIN SERIES
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction: The Neo-Latin Poetry of European Classical Scholars
• 1 Poems on Printed Books: The Case of Niccolò Perotti’s (1430–1480) Cornu copiae
• 2 The Natalis of Paolo Marsi (1440–1484)
• 3 The Verses of Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522) on the Philologist’s Work and the Place of Greek
• 4 Aldus Manutius (c. 1450–1515), Musarum panagyris and Other Early Poems
• 5 An Elegiac Poem by Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558) on Sickness and Healing
• 6 Two Poems by Piero Vettori (1499–1585)
• 7 Jean Dorat (1508–1588): The Latin Lyrics of a Greek Professor
• 8 Janus Dousa (1545–1604): The Satires of a Dutch Scholar
• 9 Editing Cicero (and Translating Aratus) in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Jan Kochanowski (1579) and Hugo Grotius (1600)
• 10 John Barclay (1582–1621): The Argenisas a Statian Scholar’s Novel
• 11 Spare Muses: Epigrams by the Cambridge Don James Duport (1606–1679)
• 12 Writing a Woman Scholar: Poems around Birgitte Thott (1610–1662)
• 13 The Plinian Dolphin: Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761), Carmina
• 14 Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912): Reditus Augusti, an Horatian Mime
• Index of Names