Table Of ContentNeo-Latin and the Vernaculars
Medieval and Renaissance
Authors and Texts
Editor-in-Chief
Francis G. Gentry (Emeritus Professor of German, Penn State University)
Editorial Board
Teodolinda Barolini (Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia
University)
Cynthia Brown (Professor of French, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Marina Brownlee (Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Professor of
Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
Keith Busby (Douglas Kelly Professor of Medieval French, University of
Wisconsin-Madison)
Craig Kallendorf (Professor of English and Classics, Texas A&M University)
Alastair Minnis (Professor of English, Yale University)
Brian Murdoch (Professor of German, Stirling University)
Jan Ziolkowski (Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard
University and Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)
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Neo-Latin and the
Vernaculars
Bilingual Interactions in the Early Modern Period
Edited by
Alexander Winkler
Florian Schaffenrath
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Contents
Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
Alexander Winkler and Florian Schaffenrath
2 Latin and the Vernacular in Biondo Flavio’s Thought and Works: a Study
with a New Critical Edition of the Correspondence with the Duke of
Milan, Francesco Sforza 11
Giuseppe Marcellino
3 Latin and Vernacular Interplay: Lazzaro Bonamico as Author and
Character of Sperone Speroni’s Dialogo delle lingue 36
Teodoro Katinis
4 Diserte Germanice loqui: the Cultural-Historical Status of the German
Language in Franciscus Irenicus’s Germaniae Exegesis (1518) 53
Ronny Kaiser
5 Ludvig Holberg’s Niels Klim (1741) and the Irony of Reading and Writing
in Latin 72
Thomas Velle
6 Neo-Latin and Vernacular Translation Theory in the 15th and 16th
Centuries: the ‘Tasks of the Translator’ According to Leonardo Bruni and
Étienne Dolet 96
Marianne Pade
7 Ariosto Latine Redditus: Early Modern Neo-Latin Rewritings of the
Orlando Furioso 113
Francesco Lucioli
8 Rewriting Vernacular Prose in Neo-Latin Hexameters: Francisco de
Pedrosa’s Austriaca sive Naumachia (1580) 130
Maxim Rigaux
9 Neo-Latin Epic Poetry on Telemach after Fénelon 147
Florian Schaffenrath
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10 Coexistence and Contamination of Vernacular and Latin in Alessandro
Braccesi’s Bilingual Tribute to Camilla Saracini: the Literatures of Siena
and Florence between Illustrious Women and Neoplatonism 166
Federica Signoriello
11 The Reception of Petrarch and Petrarchists’ Poetry in Marcantonio
Flaminio’s Carmina 188
Giacomo Comiati
12 Pietro Angeli da Barga’s Syrias (1582–91) and Contemporary Debates
over Epic Poetry 212
Alexander Winkler
13 Didactic Poetry as Elitist Poetry: Christopher Stay’s De poesi didascalica
dialogus in the Context of Classical and Neo-Latin Didactic
Discourse 232
Claudia Schindler
Index 251
Contributors
Giacomo Comiati
is postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford and member of the
AHRC-funded project ‘Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy
(c. 1350–c. 1650)’. He completed his PhD at the University of Warwick (UK)
in 2016, after having studied at the University of Padua (Italy) and the Scuola
Galileiana di Studi Superiori. He was junior research fellow at the Dahlem
Humanities Center of the Freie Universität in Berlin (Germany). His research
interests and publication mainly concern the Early-Modern reception of Latin
antiquity and Renaissance Italian and Latin poetry.
Ronny Kaiser
is teacher of Latin and History at a Gymnasium in Berlin, Germany. From 2009
to 2016 he worked as research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center
644 “Transformations of Antiquity” (Humboldt University of Berlin) and ob-
tained a fellowship at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Innsbruck. Besides his
teaching activity, he works on the historiographical and political discourse in
Neo-Latin Literature. He has published the volume “Portraying the Prince in
the Renaissance. The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and
Biographical Texts, Berlin/Boston 2016” (together with Patrick Baker, Maike
Priesterjahn, and Johannes Helmrath). His most recent publication is “Caesar’s
Rhine Bridge and Its Practical Feasibility in Giovanni Giocondo’s Expositio
Pontis (1513), in: Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing,
ed. by Marco Formisano/Philip van der Eijk, Cambridge 2017, pp. 68–92.”
Teodoro Katinis
is Research Professor of Italian Literature in the Department of Literary Studies
of Ghent University. In 2015–2016 he was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His first monograph is on philosophy and
medicine in Marsilio Ficino (Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007), while his
second monograph is on Sperone Speroni and the rebirth of sophistry in the
Italian Renaissance (Brill, 2017). Katinis has also published on other subjects,
including Renaissance political literature, Torquato Tasso’s poems and poetics
and the early-modern dialogue. At Ghent University, his research will focus on
vernacular medical texts published in Renaissance Venice and translated in
Europe for a broader public.
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Francesco Lucioli
is Assistant Professor in Italian and European Studies at the University College
Dublin. His main areas of interest are: Early-modern Italian literature, language
and culture, in both Neo-Latin and the vernacular; the relationship between
literature and visual arts; the relationship between literature and religion;
Renaissance and Baroque Rome; chivalric and epic poetry; ethics and conduct
literature. He has published the following monographs: Amore punito e disar-
mato. Parola e immagine da Petrarca all’Arcadia (2013), and Jacopo Sadoleto
umanista e poeta (2014). He has also edited Giuliano Dati’s Aedificatio Romae
(2012), and Cardinal Agostino Valier’s conduct treatises for women (2015).
Giuseppe Marcellino
is research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He received a
PhD in Classical Philology, Linguistics and History from the Scuola Normale
Superiore in Pisa. He has worked on topics related to both classical philology
as well as Neo-Latin studies. He published the critical edition, with introduc-
tion and commentary, of Favonius Eulogius’ Disputatio de Somnio Scipionis,
(Napoli: D’Auria, 2012) and Biondo Flavio’s De verbis Romanae locutionis (Pisa:
Edizione della Normale, 2015). He is currently working on the fifteenth-century
Latin production in Italy.
Marianne Pade
is director of the Danish Academy at Rome and professor of Classical Philology
at the University of Aarhus. She has published widely on Renaissance
Humanism, the reception of Greek historiography in the Renaissance, and
Neo-Latin Studies. Among her publications are the article on Thucydides for
the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (vol. 8, 2003), The Reception
of Plutarch’s Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy I–II, Renæssancestudier 14
(Copenhagen, 2007), and critical editions of Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae
(8 vols., with Jean-Louis Charlet et all., Sassoferrato 1989–2001) and Guarino
Veronese’s Latin translation of Plutarch’s Vita Dionis (Firenze, 2013). She is cur-
rently working on Neo-Latin translation of Greek political vocabulary and its
influence on western political lexicon.
Maxim Rigaux
received a master degree in Historical Literature and Linguistics at Ghent
University (2013) and an advanced master in Medieval and Renaissance
Studies at the University of Leuven (2014). As a predoctoral fellow of the FWO
(Research Foundation Flanders) he worked at Ghent University on the project
Fictions of Lepanto: Visuality and Epic Poetry in Renaissance Iberia (1571–1587).
