Table of Contents

Introduction Toon Van Houdt & Jan Papy PART I: The Rhetoric of Letter Writing Judith Rice Henderson Humanist Letter Writing: Private Conversation or Public Forum? Charles Fantazzi Vives versus Erasmus on the Art of Letter Writing Christine Benevent Erasme en sa correspondance: conquete(s) et defaite(s) du langage Tim Markey Style and Tradition in Ben Jonson's Verse Epistles Kristine Haugen Imaginary Correspondence: Epistolary Rhetoric and the Hermeneutics of Disbelief PART II: Friendship and Patronage Warren V. Boutcher Literature, Thought or Fact? Past and Present Directions in the Study of the Early Modern Letter Jacqueline Glomski Careerism at Cracow: The Dedicatory Letters of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox (1510-1530) Mark Morford Lipsius' Letters of Recommendation Elisabet Goransson Letters, Learning and Learned Ladies. An Analysis of Otto Sperling, Jr.'s (1634-1715) Correspondence with Scandinavian Women Part III: Exchanging Letters in the Republic of Letters Henk J.M. Nellen In Strict Confidence: Grotius' Correspondence with his Socinian Friends Corinna Vermeulen Strategies and Slander in the Protestant Part of the Republic of Letters: Image, Friendship and Patronage in Etienne de Courcelles' Correspondence Antonio Iurilli La crisi del sapere rinascimentale in un carteggio italiano di primo Settecento PART IV: 'Programming', criticizing and libelling Erika Rummel Argumentis, non contumeliis: The Humanistic Model for Religious Debate and Erasmus' Apologetic Letters Jane Griffiths The Grammarian as 'Poeta' and 'Vates': Self-Presentation in the Antibossicon Iordan Avramov Letter Writing and the Management of Scientific Controversy: The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg (1661-1677) PART V: Literary Fame and Scientific Reputation Karl A. E. Enenkel Die Grundlegung humanistischer Selbstprasentation im Brief-Corpus: Francesco Petrarcas Familiarium rerum libri XXIV Lisa Jardine Before Clarissa: Erasmus, 'Letters of Obscure Men', and Epistolary Fictions Edward V. George Conceal or Disclose? The Limits of Self-Representation in the Letters of Juan Luis Vives Philip J. Ford Self-Presentation in the Published Correspondence of George Buchanan Adam Mosley Tycho Brahe's Epistolae Astronomicae: A Reappraisal Index nominum

About the Author

Jan Papy is Research Professor of Neo-Latin Literature and Renaissance Humanism at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Gilbert Tournoy is Emeritus Professor of Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at the University of Leuven.