The Virgilian Tradition; The First Fifteen Hundred Years

by Edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C. J. Putnam

• ISBN13: 9780300108224
• ISBN10: 0300108222
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2008-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet's own lifetime to the year 1500. Unprecedented in scope, the book presents a vast compendium of materials that illuminate how poets, teachers, students, and common folk responded to Virgil and his poetry. The volume offers a brief commentary on each text, many of which are translated into English for the first time. The book begins with a chronological survey of Virgil's influence upon writers from Augustan Rome to Renaissance Italy. There follow detailed reviews of biographies of Virgil, of how his writings were received and used, and of how the poet was envisaged and explained through the centuries. The final section focuses on the tradition of legends associated with Virgil.

Author Biography

Michael C. J. Putnam is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and professor of comparative literature, Brown University. He is the author of Virgil’s Epic Designs and Horace’s “Carmen Saeculare,” published by Yale University Press. Jan M. Ziolkowski, author of more than a dozen books on medieval literature, is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Virgil the Poet	p. 1
Virgil on Himself	p. 2
Contemporary Response	p. 5
Later Influence and Importance	p. 14
Virgil as Performed or Declaimed	p. 162
Biography: Images of Virgil	p. 179
Vitae	p. 179
Vergil's Birthday: Ides of October as Sacred	p. 403
Virgil's Remains and Grave	p. 404
The Burning of the Aeneid	p. 420
Autograph Manuscripts of Virgil	p. 425
Virgilian Images	p. 427
Virgil as Philosopher and Compendium of Knowledge	p. 463
Virgil as Worthy of Veneration and Divine	p. 467
Virgil's Texts and Their Uses	p. 469
Virgilian Cento	p. 471
Virgilian Parody	p. 485
Eclogues 4	p. 487
Orpheus	p. 503
Dido	p. 511
Descent into the Underworld	p. 543
Golden Bough	p. 544
Florilegia	p. 550
Roman d'Eneas	p. 550
Heinrich von Veldeke	p. 576
Middle Irish Wanderings of Aeneas	p. 608
Virgil in Medieval Icelandic	p. 616
Commentary Tradition	p. 623
Tradition of Commentary before the Fourth Century	p. 626
Servius	p. 628
Macrobius	p. 636
Other Commentators of the Fourth or Fifth Century	p. 641
Priscian	p. 649
Fulgentius	p. 660
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus	p. 672
Scholia Bernensia on Eclogues 4	p. 674
Old Irish Glosses on Philargyrius	p. 698
Carolingian Commentary on Eclogues 6	p. 700
Carolingian Glosses on the Aeneid	p. 704
Old High German Glosses	p. 705
Introduction to the Latin Homer	p. 705
Introductions to the Eclogues	p. 707
"Master Anselm"	p. 717
Platonizing Directions in Virgilian Allegory	p. 721
(Pseudo-)Bernardus Silvestris	p. 726
Conrad of Hirsau	p. 739
John of Garland	p. 744
Nicholas Trevet	p. 750
Aeneid Commentary of Mixed Type	p. 773
Cristoforo Landino	p. 793
Virgilian Obscenity	p. 811
Allegorical Topoi	p. 815
Virgilian Legends	p. 825
Virgil The Magician	p. 829
Magic Figurines and Statues	p. 860
Virgil in the Basket and Virgil's Revenge	p. 874
Visions Involving Virgil	p. 891
Virgil in Preaching	p. 903
Fusions of Lives and Legends	p. 907
Alexander of Telese	p. 921
Image du monde	p. 923
Jans Enikel	p. 926
Adenet le Roi	p. 932
Oracle of the Three Letters	p. 934
Noirons li Arabis	p. 937
Renart le contrefait	p. 942
Cronaca di Partenope	p. 945
Antonio Pucci	p. 953
Jean d'Outremeuse	p. 955
Virgil's Journey to the Magnetic Mountain	p. 988
Bonamente Aliprandi	p. 990
Baena Songbook	p. 1000
Gutierre Diaz de Games	p. 1002
Life of Virgil	p. 1003
"Olde Deceyte of Vergilius"	p. 1023
Index	p. 1033
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