{"title":"Some Unpublished Latin Verses on Chronology by Samuel Johnson","authors":"R. Brown","doi":"10.30986/2022.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2022.125","url":null,"abstract":"This is the first known publication of some Latin verses written by Samuel Johnson on the last page of his Welsh Diary. The left column lists the dates of various historical events. The right column contains dactylic hexameters that versify the dates of eleven of these events. The article supplies a text and translation of the verses, together with annotations and a discussion of their content.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77171647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tragedia y ambivalencia en el Austrias Carmen de Juan Latino. ¿Un poema a los vencedores o a los vencidos en Lepanto?","authors":"Noelia Bernabeu Torreblanca","doi":"10.30986/2022.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2022.41","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses some passages of Juan Latino’s Austrias Carmen (1573) that stand out for their great pathos and their ambivalence in the treatment of the characters. Here, the poet shows the horrors of war, calls the Christian fleet into question and brings to the forefront the virtues and sufferings of the Turks. However, he does not stop celebrating the victory and takes sides for the Spanish monarchy and Christianity. This study aims to demonstrate that the poem’s ambiguity lies in its imitation of Virgil’s Aeneid and, in part, of Lucan’s Pharsalia, and, furthermore, that it does not contradict the propagandistic or laudatory tone of Juan Latino’s poetic production. This hypothesis is supported by literary examples, as well as by historical and biographical facts which prove the poet’s adhesion to the Empire and his complete integration into Spanish society.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74723081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neo-Latin Epigrams on Milton by Peder Winstrup, Bishop of Lund, and the Rothenburg Jurist Georg Christoph Walther","authors":"T. Vozar","doi":"10.30986/2022.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2022.115","url":null,"abstract":"This article brings attention to some previously unknown Neo-Latin epigrams on John Milton from the 1650s by Peder Winstrup, the Lutheran bishop of Lund, and the Rothenburg jurist Georg Christoph Walther. Translations of the epigrams and brief commentaries are supplied. Responding principally to Milton’s Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio (1651), which won its author fame throughout Europe, these epigrams offer new evidence for the early reception of Milton’s Latin prose and further testimony to the impact of the Defensio on the Latin culture of mid-seventeenth-century Europe.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76237514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Itinera Domestica. Exploring the English Countryside through the Eyes of the Academic in 16th and 17th- Century Neo-Latin Texts","authors":"J. Luggin","doi":"10.30986/2022.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2022.7","url":null,"abstract":"The article introduces a group of Neo-Latin travel poems to the English countryside from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which have received little scholarly attention. It can be classified within a sub-genre of early modern travel literature, the journey poem. Richard Eedes was the first to write an Iter Boreale, and several seventeenth-century academics followed in his footsteps. The poems – and one prosimetrum – are connected to Hodoeporica which were written all over Europe at the time, but they remain sui generis. They are poetic accounts of journeys through the then scarcely travelled English countryside; they stem from an academic context, with almost all affiliated with the university of Oxford; and they emulate ancient travel poems, such as Horace’s Iter Brundisinum, while also being a serious account of the scholars’ encounter with what was largely unknown to their readers: the English countryside, particularly the North, its inhabitants, monuments and, most innovatively, its landscape.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"163 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84291557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latin, Liberty, and Human Rights. Pieter Burman the Younger’s Circle and Revolutionary Thought in the Eighteenth Century","authors":"Floris Verhaart","doi":"10.30986/2022.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2022.79","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86018019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First edition and translation of an unpublished poem (1566) from Johanna Otho to Camille de Morel","authors":"K. Karmen","doi":"10.30986/2021.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.209","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the first full edition and translation of an unpublished (1566) poem written by Johanna Otho and sent to Camille de Morel. Both young women, linked by their mutual acquaintance Karel Utenhove, were internationally recognized for their learning. Otho’s poem is a significant contribution to the corpus of women’s Latin poetry. This paper also offers a brief introduction to the poem’s historical context and suggests contem- porary political resonances for Otho’s poem. Her poem contains allusions to the conflict between courtly life and religion, which reference the ongoing conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Europe and specifically France.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73482808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“And why may not I go to college?” Alethea Stiles and Women’s Latin Learning in Early America","authors":"Teddy Delwiche","doi":"10.30986/2021.305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.305","url":null,"abstract":"Presented here for the first time are the letters of a young, little-known American woman, Alethea Stiles (1745-1784), to her learned cousin Ezra Stiles (1727-1795), the seventh president of Yale College. Brief and no doubt modest though these two English and one Latin letter may be, they provide an important point of entry into the women’s world of classical education in early America. Increasingly, American classical receptionists are trying to look beyond the “founding fathers” and consider what the classics meant in early America for men and women alike. We might do well, however, to reconsider one of the long-standing premises of reception research: that women interacted with the classical past largely outside of Latin and Greek texts and wrote little in the ancient languages. Leveraging both her knowledge of Roman history and the Latin language itself, Alethea advocated for admissions into Yale College over two centuries before the institution would welcome women. Though this attempt would not succeed, the presence of Alethea in the historical record demonstrates that even institutions that explicitly excluded precocious young women still include them in the archives.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86910378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jacques Delaunay et les moines poètes Dampierre et Marconville dans les Epigrammata","authors":"J. Nassichuk","doi":"10.30986/2021.155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.155","url":null,"abstract":"In his little-known 1539 collection of epigrams, Jacques Delaunay (Jacobus Alnetus), a physician and canon of Saint-Étienne de Troyes, includes two important, and hitherto unnoticed, poetic exchanges between the monastic humanist poets Jean Dampierre and Nicolas de Marconville and himself. After a brief presentation of these two figures, the present article examines the principal themes and literary techniques characteristic of the poems that comprise the two poetic “correspondences” with Delaunay. Examination of these two separate sequences reveals several common, unifying themes. The relative (perceived) impoverishment of their poetic invention, and the deep anguish that it generates, constitutes a recurring motif, and a veritable preoccupation, for these poets, all of whom speak of the challenges posed by duties that distract them from cultivating the muse. Their collective meditation on these themes quietly elaborates a defense of the dignity of minor poetic genres such as the epigram in hendecasyllables or elegiac distichs, insofar as these genres often give voice to relations of friendship, love, and Christian solidarity.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73177434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semper retis memorabile bellum (Raet. 7.565). Simon Lemnius in der Nachfolge Silius Italicus","authors":"F. Schaffenrath","doi":"10.30986/2021.185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76260518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}