The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe

by Kallendorf,Craig

• ISBN13: 9780754659235
• ISBN10: 0754659232
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000938357
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The essays in this collection approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading. The first group of essays looks at broader questions, of traditional notions of literary practice and value, or how rhetoric helps shape literary criticism. The author then focuses on how title pages and illustrations help shape interpretation, and so the comments that early modern readers regularly entered into the margins of their books. The volume concludes with four more specialized studies that show how these larger issues play out in specific neo-Latin works of the early modern period.

Table of Contents

Preface

Philology, the reader and the nachleben of classical texts

Marginalia and the rise of early modern subjectivity

The rhetorical criticism of literature in early Italian humanism from Boccaccio to Landino

Virgil's post-classical legacy

Proverbs, censors and schools: neo-Latin studies and book history

The Virgilian title page as interpretive frame; or, through the looking glass

The Aeneid transformed: illustration as interpretation from the renaissance to the present

In search of a patron: Anguillara's vernacular Virgil and the print culture of renaissance Italy

In the margins of Virgil: Venetian renaissance books in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and their early readers

Cristoforo Landino, Andrea Tordi and the reading practices of renaissance humanism

Virgil, Dante and empire in Italian thought, 1300-1500

Inclyta Aeneis: a 16th-century neo-Latin tragicomedy

Ascensius, Landino and Virgil: continuity and transformation in renaissance commentary

Aeneas and the 'new world': Stella's Columbeis and Virgilian pessimism

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