Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information A GUIDE TO NEO-LATIN LITERATURE Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c. 1400)wellintothe eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specific- ally to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers essential background to the understanding of this material, in twenty-three chapters written by leading scholars – sixteenofwhich are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More’s Utopia, Milton’s Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume. victoria moul is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Litera- ture at King’s College London. She is a leader in the field of early modern Latin and English literature, with wide-ranging publica- tions including articles on neo-Latin elegy, lyric and didactic poetry and Milton, Jonson, Donne and Cowley, as well as the reception of Horace, Pindar and Virgil. Her previous publications include Jonson, Horace, and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, 2010)and a translation of George Herbert’s complete Latin poetry with intro- duction and notes, for a new edition of Herbert edited with John Drury (George Herbert: Complete Poems, 2015). She is working on an anthology of neo-Latin verse, with commentary, and a major book on the interaction between neo-Latin and English poetry in Britain, 1550–1700. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information AGUIDETO NEO-LATIN LITERATURE edited by VICTORIA MOUL © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 4843/24, 2nd Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, Delhi – 110002, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. 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Conjuring with the Classics: Neo-Latin Poets and Their Pagan Familiars 17 Yasmin Haskell 2. Neo-Latin Literature and the Vernacular 35 Tom Deneire 3. How the Young Man Should Study Latin Poetry: Neo-Latin Literature and Early Modern Education 52 Sarah Knight 4. The Republic of Letters 66 Françoise Waquet part ii poetry and drama 81 5. Epigram 83 Robert Cummings 6. Elegy 98 L. B. T. Houghton vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information viii Contents 7. Lyric 113 Julia Haig Gaisser 8. Verse Letters 131 Gesine Manuwald 9. Verse Satire 148 Sari Kivistö 10. Pastoral 163 Estelle Haan 11. Didactic Poetry 180 Victoria Moul 12. Epic 200 Paul Gwynne 13. Drama 221 Nigel Griffin part iii prose 235 14. Approaching Neo-Latin Prose as Literature 237 Terence Tunberg 15. Epistolary Writing 255 Jacqueline Glomski 16. Oratory and Declamation 272 Marc Van der Poel 17. Dialogue 289 Virginia Cox 18. Shorter Prose Fiction 308 David Marsh 19. Longer Prose Fiction 322 Stefan Tilg 20. Prose Satire 340 Joel Relihan 21. Historiography 358 Felix Mundt © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information Contents ix part iv working with neo-latin literature 377 22. Using Manuscripts and Early Printed Books 379 Craig Kallendorf 23. Editing Neo-Latin Literature 394 Keith Sidwell Bibliography 408 Index 474 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information Illustrations Figure 17.1 – Hans Burgkmair the Elder, woodcut from frontispiece of Politiae literariae Angeli Decembrii Mediolanensis oratoris clarissimi, ad summum pontificem Pium II, libri septem (Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1540). page 295 x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information Contributors virginia cox is Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. She is the author of The Renaissance Dialogue (Cambridge, 1992); Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 (2008); The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy (2011); and A Short History of the Italian Renaissance (2015). robert cummings (1942–2015) was a scholar of the English, Scottish, and European Renaissance whose interests ranged far and wide. In recent years he co-edited volume ii (1550–1660)ofThe Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, won the BCLA/BCLT (now ‘John Dryden’) Trans- lation Prize for his English translations of George Herbert’s Latin Poems, edited Robert Graves’ versions of Apuleius, Suetonius and Lucan, and served as Review Editor for the journal Translation and Literature. Robert, sadly, died before he was able to oversee the final stages of editing, and some details of his chapter were completed by the editor. tom deneire, Ph.D. (2009), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, researched (neo-) Latin epistolography and stylistics at that university, and partici- pated in an NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) project on bilingual humanist poetry at the Huygens ING Institute (The Hague). In 2014 he was appointed Curator of the Special Collections of Antwerp University Library, where he leads cataloguing, exhibition and digitization projects. He is editor of De Gulden Passer, international journal for book history. julia haig gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Research Professor in Latin at Bryn Mawr College. Her books include Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), Pierio Valeriano xi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02929-3 — A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul Frontmatter More Information xii List of Contributors on the Ill Fortunes of Learned Men (1999), The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass (2008), and Catullus (2009). Her translation of the first volume of Pontano’s Dialogues was published in 2012; she is now working on volume ii. jacqueline glomski is Senior Research Fellow in the History Depart- ment at King’s College London. She is the author of Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons (2007), a co-compiler (with Erika Rummel) of the Annotated Catalogue of Early Editions of Erasmus at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (1994), co-editor (with A. Steiner-Weber and K. A. E. Enenkel, et al.) of Acta Conventus Neo- Latini Monasteriensis: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (2015) and (with Isabelle Moreau) of Seventeenth- Century Fiction: Text and Transmission (2016), as well as the author of numerous articles on the neo-Latin literature of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. nigel griffin taught at the universities of Manchester and Oxford. He now lives in south-west France. paul gwynne is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The American University of Rome. He received his Ph.D. from the Warburg Institute, University of London.