Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance
Title | Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | L. B. T. Houghton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2019-09-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108499929 |
This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil's 'messianic' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.
Virgil's Fourth Eclogue. [Lat.] With notes, explanatory of the prophecy, and proving it to be a birth-day poem in honour of Octavius. [Selected from J. Penn's “Observations in illustration of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue.”]
Title | Virgil's Fourth Eclogue. [Lat.] With notes, explanatory of the prophecy, and proving it to be a birth-day poem in honour of Octavius. [Selected from J. Penn's “Observations in illustration of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue.”] PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1825 |
Genre | |
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Printing Virgil
Title | Printing Virgil PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Kallendorf |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2019-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004421351 |
In this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, transforming his work into poetry that was both classical and postclassical.
Virgil in the Renaissance
Title | Virgil in the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | David Scott Wilson-Okamura |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2010-08-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521198127 |
The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators? Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and poetry.
The Reception of Vergil in Renaissance Rome
Title | The Reception of Vergil in Renaissance Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey A. Glodzik |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2023-01-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004528423 |
Roman humanists appropriated Vergilian themes and language to articulate a vision for Rome in the early Cinquecento. This particular brand of Vergilianism became the language of the discourse of papal Rome, demonstrating Vergilian interpretation and application varied based on locale.
The Renaissance Battle for Rome
Title | The Renaissance Battle for Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna de Beer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2024-01-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198878923 |
The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domains—power, morality, cityscape and literature—in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces the contours of this rhetorical battle across Renaissance Europe, based on a broad selection of Humanist Latin Poetry. It shows how humanist poets negotiated different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work, acting both as "spin doctors" and "new Romans", while also undermining competing claims to this same idealized past. By so doing this book not only offers a new understanding of several aspects of the Renaissance that are usually considered separately, but ultimately allows us to understand Renaissance culture as a constant negotiation between appropriating and contesting the idea and ideal of "Rome."
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Virgil PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Martindale |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1997-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521498852 |
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.