An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

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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.

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This volume will be a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in the history of literature, education and scholarship. -- L. B. T. Houghton, Honorary Research Fellow in Greek and Latin, University College London, UK

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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 History at the University of Leicester, UK, and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series.