The Virgilian Tradition II: Books and Their Readers in the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780367710422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Craig Kallendorf

Opis

The Virgilian Tradition II brings together thirteen essays by historian Craig Kallendorf. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern history, as well as those interested in book history and cultural history.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Renaissance Readings of Virgil  1. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader  2. Historicizing the "Harvard School": Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Italian Renaissance Scholarship  3. Representing the Other: Ercilla’s La Araucana, Virgil’s Aeneid, and the ‘New’ World Encounter  4. Epic and Tragedy – Virgil, La Cerda, Milton  5. Nicodemus Frischlin’s Dido: Virgil on the German Stage  6. The Neo-Latin Epic  Part 2: Early Books and Manuscripts, Mostly Virgilian  7. The Medium Is the Message: From Manuscript to the Hand Press to the Computer Age  8. Using Manuscripts and Early Printed Books  9. A Humanist Annotator of Virgil: Coluccio Salutati  10. Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800  11. Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Plato, Aristotle, and the Function of Literature  12. Virgil in the Renaissance Classroom: From Toscanella’s Osservationi … sopra l’opere di Virgilio to the Exercitationes rhetoricae  13. Canon, Print, and the Virgilian Corpus

O autorze

Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries.