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    An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature
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    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 1 October 2020
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350157293
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages328 pages
    • Size 216x138 mm
    • Weight 376 g
    • Language English
    • 170

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    Compiled by a team of international experts, this volume showcases the best of the huge abundance of literature written in Latin in Europe from about 1500 to 1800. A general introduction provides readers with the context they need before diving into the 19 high-quality short Latin extracts and English translations. Together these texts present a rich panorama of the different literary genres, styles and themes that flourished at the time, and include authors such as Erasmus, Buchanan, Leibniz and Newton, along with less well-known writers.

    From the vast array of material available, a varied and meaningful sample of texts has been carefully curated by the editors of the volume. Passages not only exhibit literary merit or historical importance, but also illustrate the role of the complete texts from which they have been selected in the development of Neo-Latin literature. They reflect the wide range of authors writing in Latin in early modern Europe, as well as the importance of Latin in the history of ideas.

    As with all volumes in the series, section introductions and accompanying notes on every text provide orientation on the material for students.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of contributors
    Preface

    INTRODUCTION
    (Lucy R. Nicholas, King's College London, UK and William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria)
    1 European Neo-Latin and its development
    2 Neo-Latin as a literary medium
    3 Neo-Latin literature and its genres
    4 Aims and coverage of this volume
    5 Latin texts: sources and conventions
    6 Bibliography

    TEXTS
    1 A pastoral exchange on the treatment of poetry
    Battista Spagnoli Mantovano (1447-1516), Adolescentia 5.1-23, 68-91, 111-25 (Bobby Xinyue, University of Warwick, UK)

    2 The pierced ear: divine revelation and impregnation
    Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530), De partu Virginis, extracts from Book 1 (Lucy R. Nicholas, King's College London, UK)

    3 The abbot and the learned woman
    Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Colloquia (Abbatis et Eruditae) (Astrid Khoo, Harvard University, USA)

    4 Christopher Columbus' first voyage
    Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Rerum Venetarum historiae libri, extracts from 6.1-3 (Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA)

    5 Morbid measures and contaminated airs: the poetics of pox
    Girolamo Fracastoro (1476/8-1553), Syphilis sive de morbo Gallico, extracts (Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA)

    6 A Protestant on the attack in Latin
    Martin Luther (1483-1546), De abroganda missa privata (Lucy R. Nicholas, King's College London, UK)

    7 Greeting Charles at Bordeaux
    George Buchanan (1506-1582), Silvae 1 (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK)

    8 Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum (1515-1519),
    Letter 1.37: The converted Jew and his foreskin (Daniel Hadas, King's College London, UK)

    9 The pleasures of the hills
    Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati, pp. 47-9 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria)

    10 Neo-Latin love elegy
    Joachim Du Bellay (c. 1522-1560), selection from Amores (1558) (Paul White, University of Leeds, UK)

    11 A Jesuit encounter with an Indian Yogi
    Francesco Benci (1542-1594), Quinque martyres 5.96-132 (Paul Gwynne, The American University of Rome, Italy)

    12 Mary, liturgy and missions
    Francisco Enzinas' Correspondence with Robert Bellarmine (1605-1607) (Jan Machielsen, Cardiff University, UK)

    13 Seneca's death dramatized
    Matthew Gwinne (1558-1627), Nero: Nova Tragaedia (1603), Act 5, Scene 6 (Emma Buckley, St Andrews University, UK)

    14 Virgilian commentary
    Juan Luis de la Cerda (1558/60-1643), on Aeneas' first appearance in the Aeneid (Fiachra Mac Góráin, University College London, UK)

    15 Vitalist philosophy from a long lost author
    Anne Conway (1631-1679), Principia philosophiae antiquissimae & recentissimae, excerpts from Chapter VII (Laurynas Adomaitis, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy)

    16 A new approach to studying old documents
    Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), De re diplomatica, extracts (Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

    17 Newton on theology
    Isaac Newton (1642-1727), theological section from the General Scholium to the Principia mathematica (Pablo Toribio, Spanish National Research Council, Spain)

    18 Damnation and divine justice
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Confessio philosophi, extract (Lucy Sheaf, King's College London, UK)

    19 A school play
    Gottlob Krantz (1660-1733), Memorabilia Bibliothecae .Wratislaviensis, excerpts from Acts I and IV (Jacqueline Glomski, University College London, UK)

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