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) Index

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A vivid collection of extracts from early modern European Latin literature with English translations and notes, covering prose and poetry, and ranging across several European countries and different time periods, literary genres and themes.

About the Author

Daniel Hadas is Lecturer in Medieval Latin at King's College London, UK. His research interests centre around Latin patristics, the development of post-classical Latin, and manuscript culture and textual criticism. Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies. She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and co-edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbury, 2012). Lucy R. Nicholas is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King’s College London and the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. She has published on Roger Ascham and written on other early modern Latin authors, including Thomas More and Walter Haddon, and also co-edited Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres (2016) with Andrea Riedl Svorad Zavarský. She is the Treasurer of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies.

Reviews

This anthology provides an excellent introduction to a wide-range of Latin writing from the pivotal centuries after the introduction of the printing press. You’ll find in it a treasure trove of excerpts from famous and fascinating authors sure to delight anyone interested in European learning and letters.
*Aaron Pelttari, Lecturer in Classics, University of Edinburgh, UK*