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Bilingual Europe Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access Brill Studies in Intellectual History General Editor Han van Ruler (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Founded by Arjo Vanderjagt Editorial Board C.S. Celenza ( Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) M. Colish (Yale University) J.I. Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) A. Koba (University of Tokyo) M. Mugnai (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) W. Otten (University of Chicago) VOLUME 239 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bsih Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access Bilingual Europe Latin and Vernacular Cultures, Examples of Bilingualism and Multilingualism c. 1300–1800 Edited by Jan Bloemendal LEIDEN | BOSTON Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. Cover illustration: First page of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia / De vulgari eloquio, sive idiomate, Paris, 1577 (detail). University of Mannheim Sch 072/212 (http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/itali/dante1/jpg/ cs001.html). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bilingual Europe : Latin and Vernacular Cultures, Examples of Bilingualism and Multilingualism c. 1300–1800 / Edited by Jan Bloemendal. pages cm. — (Brill studies in intellectual history ; volume 239) English, French, and German essays. Bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-28962-8 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-28963-5 (e-book) 1. Latin language— Foreign elements—Europe. 2. Bilingualism—Europe—History. 3. Indo-European languages—Influence on Latin. 4. Latin language—Influence on Indo-European languages. I. Bloemendal, Jan, 1961– editor. PA2055.E8B56 2015 470’.42—dc23 2014047373 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. 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Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access Contents List of Illustrations vii About the Authors viii Introduction: Bilingualism, Multilingualism and the Formation of Europe 1 Jan Bloemendal 1 Hispania, Italia and Occitania: Latin and the Vernaculars, Bilingualism or Multilingualism? 15 Arie Schippers 2 Latin and the Vernaculars: The Case of Erasmus 30 Ari H. Wesseling† 3 The Multilingualism of Dutch Rhetoricians: Jan van den Dale’s Uure van den doot (Brussels, c. 1516) and the Use of Language 50 Arjan van Dixhoorn 4 Types of Bilingual Presentation in the English-Latin Terence 73 Demmy Verbeke 5 An Aristotelian at the Academy: Simone Porzio and the Problem of Philosophical Vulgarisation 83 Eva Del Soldato 6 Science and Rhetoric: From Giordano Bruno’s Cena de le Ceneri to Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems 100 Ingrid D. Rowland 7 Vom Aristarchus zur Jesuiten-Poesie: Zum dynamischen Wechselbezug von Latein und Landessprache in den deutschen Landen in der Frühen Neuzeit / From Aristarch to Jesuit Poetry: The Shifting Interrelation between Latin and the Vernacular in the German Lands in Early Modern Times 118 Guillaume van Gemert Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access vi contents 8 From Philosophia Naturalis to Science, from Latin to the Vernacular 144 H. Floris Cohen 9 The Use of the Vernacular in Early Modern Philosophy 161 Wiep van Bunge 10 Latin et vernaculaires dans l’Université du XVIIIe siècle / Latin and Vernacular Languages in the Eighteenth-Century University 176 Françoise Waquet 11 Latinitas Goes Native: The Philological Turn and Jacob Grimm’s De desiderio patriae (1830) 187 Joep Leerssen Works Cited 201 Index of Personal Names 235 Index of Geographical Names 239 Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access List of Illustrations 5.1 Simone Porzio, An homo bonus, vel malus volens fiat Simonis Portio disputatio, Florence, 1551 92 5.2 Simone Porzio, Se l’uomo diventa buono o cattivo volontariamente, transl. into Italian by G.B. Gelli. Florence, 1551 93 5.3 Frontispiece of Simone Porzio, Cristianae deprecationis interpretatio, [Naples, 1538] 96 11.1 Dante Alighieri, Title page of De vulgari eloquentia, Paris, 1577, with manuscript notes by Gilles Ménage 188 Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access About the Authors Jan Bloemendal (1961) is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute of Dutch History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Hague. His fields of interest include Dutch early modern drama, reception studies, literature and society, poetry, and Erasmus as a humanist and theologian. He is co-editor of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (2014). http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/bloemendal/ [email protected] Wiep van Bunge (1960) is professor of the History of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has written extensively on early modern intellectual history, including Johannes Bredenburg (1643–1697) (PhD, 1990), From Stevin to Spinoza (2001), and Spinoza Past and Present (2012). He also (co-)edited several volumes, such as The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003) and The Continuum Companion to Spinoza (2011). From 2004 to 2012 he served as dean of the Rotterdam Faculty of Philosophy. http://www.eur.nl/fw/contact/medewerkers/vanbunge/ [email protected] H. Floris Cohen (1946) is Professor in Comparative History of Science at the University of Utrecht (Descartes Centre). His numerous books and articles, including Quantifying Music (1984), The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry (1994), and How Modern Science Came Into the World (2010), center on the question of how modern science emerged in seventeenth-century Europe. Currently, he is also Editor of Isis (Journal of the History of Science Society). www.hfcohen.com [email protected] Eva Del Soldato (1980) is Assistant Professor in the Romance Languages department at the University of Pennsylvania. She was trained in Philosophy and Intellectual History at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Her research is primarily devoted to Renaissance thought and culture, with a special attention to the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions. She also cultivates interests in history of book, history of libraries and universities, and in Twentieth-century cultural Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access About The Authors ix institutions. She is the author of the monograph Simone Porzio: Un aristotelico tra natura e grazia (2010) and of several editions and articles. She is one of the coordinators of the project ‘Biblioteche filosofiche private in età moderna e contemporanea’ (http://www.picus.sns.it/). [email protected] Arjan van Dixhoorn (1973) was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation— Flanders (FWO) until October 2014 and is Hurgronje Professor of History at UC Roosevelt, the International Honour’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Utrecht University at Middelburg. His field of research is the comparative history of (vernacular) cultures of knowledge and public opinion in the early modern Dutch-speaking Low Countries. His current work is focusing on the city of Antwerp and the county of Zeeland and the shaping of a view on the positive role of the (liberal and mechanical) arts in local and regional development. He is also a specialist of the late medieval and early modern chambers of rhetoric. [email protected] / [email protected] Guillaume van Gemert (1948) is Professor Emeritus of German Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on Early Modern German literature in a European context, on German-Dutch cultural exchange, on national and cultural identity, on the interrelations of Latin and vernacular as well as on contemporary German literature. [email protected] Joep Leerssen (1955) is Academy Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he holds the Chair of Modern European Literature. He is a recipient of the Spinoza Prize, with which he funds the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (SPIN, www.spinnet.eu). Among his monographs are Remembrance and Imagination (1996), National Thought in Europe (3rd ed. 2010) and De Bronnen van het Vaderland (2nd ed. 2011). [email protected] www.leerssen.nl Ingrid D. Rowland (1953) is a Professor at the Rome campus of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture (Notre Dame, Indiana) and writes on subjects such as Jan Bloemendal - 978-90-04-28963-5 Downloaded from Brill.com04/05/2019 09:09:07AM via free access x about the authors Classical Antiquity, the Renaissance, and the Age of the Baroque.