{"title":"The Latin Poems of Margareta van Godewijck (1627-1677)","authors":"Aron Ouwerkerk","doi":"10.30986/2021.229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.229","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution presents the editio princeps of all extant Latin poems written by the Dutch poet Margareta van Godewijck from Dordrecht. In order to increase the accessibility of these hitherto unpublished texts, the edition is preceded by an extensive preparatory analysis of previous biographical sources and accounts of how her poems were received. These will illustrate the need for the present study. There follow an evaluation of her Latin poems with regard to both form and content and a discussion of her Latinity, textual interaction with other Neo-Latin poets, and the literary merits of her work. It is argued that her Latin poetry had a clear social and performative function and can best be considered within the context of student composition. Finally, an account of the trajectories of the two surviving autographs and an explanation of the editorial principles prepare the reader for the critical edition.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80816577","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":"Three Latin Poems Doubtfully Attributed to Samuel Johnson","authors":"Robert E. Brown","doi":"10.30986/2021.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.97","url":null,"abstract":"The “Poems of Doubtful Authorship” in modern editions of Samuel Johnson’s poetry include three Latin poems that were first associated with Johnson in 1856. This article reveals the weakness of this alleged “attribution” and discusses the arguments for and against Johnson’s authorship of each poem in turn. While certainty is impossible, it concludes that he possibly wrote the translation Ex cantico Solomonis but that Venus in Armour and The Logical Warehouse are unlikely to be his.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74318012","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":"Francesco Sforza’s Friends and Foes. Techniques of Characterization in Filelfo’s Sphortias","authors":"Bart van Waterschoot","doi":"10.30986/2021.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.23","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes techniques of character portrayal and its functionality in the humanist Francesco Filelfo’s Sphortias, a Neo-Latin epic poem about the conquest of the Duchy of Milan (1447-1450) by Francesco Sforza, who subsequently became the author’s major patron. The article focuses on two clusters of characters who have an obvious relationship to the eponymous hero of the poem: Sforza’s personal lieutenants on the one hand, and the leaders of Venice, Sforza’s major adversary during the war, on the other. By means of intratextual and intertextual allusions, as well as by reworking historical data, Filelfo portrays some members of the first group in a negative way, while others in the second group are cast in a favourable light. The reason for such unexpected characterization of the individuals in question is not their actual behaviour during the conflict, but their relationship with Sforza at the time of the poem’s composition.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73404011","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":"El intercambio de invectivas en yambos latinos entre Bonaventura Vulcanio y Franz Nans","authors":"Eduardo Del Pino","doi":"10.30986/2021.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.96","url":null,"abstract":"This paper consists of the first critical edition and translation of some Latin poems written in iambic meter by the Flemish Hellenists Bonaventura Vulcanius and Franciscus Nansius to attack each other. It also contains a commentary on their historical context, genre, meter, vocabulary and style.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72937816","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":"Los epigramas de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. En torno a la atribución de los elogios de Antonio de Nebrija y de Juan Domínguez de Paniza","authors":"Ramón Gutiérrez","doi":"10.30986/2021.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.115","url":null,"abstract":"During his lifetime, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490-1573) only published two epigrams: In Stunicam and In Maximilianum archiducem Austriae. On the basis of an eighteenth-century manuscript, preserved at the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid), Losada ascribed to Sepúlveda two further epigrams: In Aelium Nebrissensem and In Paniza. The former has certainly to be rejected, taking into account chronological and ecdotic arguments. With respect to the latter (which has to be dated between 1514 and 1522), its ascription to Sepúlveda has to be regarded as a hopeful assumption at best: indeed, even if we lack conclusive arguments for denying Sepúlveda’s authorship, conclusive pieces of evidence are missing for supporting such an attribution. A critical edition and translation of the epigrams In Aelium Nebrissensem and In Paniza is also provided.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"340 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77778968","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":"Textual and Interpretive Notes on the Epic Poems of Maffeo Vegio","authors":"Kyle Gervais","doi":"10.30986/2021.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88705490","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":"George Jeffreys’s Translation of a Latin Epigram on Casimire and Hosschius’s Elegy on Sarbiewski","authors":"Marlin E. Blaine","doi":"10.30986/2021.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2021.141","url":null,"abstract":"The “Poems of Doubtful Authorship” in modern editions of Samuel Johnson’s poetry include three Latin poems that were first associated with Johnson in 1856. This article reveals the weakness of this alleged “attribution” and discusses the arguments for and against Johnson’s authorship of each poem in turn. While certainty is impossible, it concludes that he possibly wrote the translation Ex cantico Solomonis but that Venus in Armour and The Logical Warehouse are unlikely to be his.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76690548","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":"“Nunc eo ingenio sum.” Philologie et écriture de soi dans les Variae lectiones de Marc-Antoine Muret","authors":"L. Claire","doi":"10.30986/2020.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2020.115","url":null,"abstract":"The collection Variae lectiones by Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-1585), which is part of the humanist tradition of miscellanea, is characterized by the prominent presence of the first person. This article proposes to study the relationship between philology and writing about oneself by examining the different kinds of ‟Iˮ used by Muret. Staking at the outset a claim to auctoritas, the ‟Iˮ of Variae lectiones refers above all to a scholarly and erudite persona, which the French humanist develops with the ambition of consolidating his personal reputation at a\u0000crucial period of his career in Italy. Finally, while writing as a philologist, Muret sometimes reveals himself through his readings of the Ancients, and hints at a more intimate ‟Iˮ which emerges in some accounts of episodes experienced.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88956405","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":"The Satellitium sive Symbola of Joan Lluís Vives. Critical Edition with a Short Introduction","authors":"Joan Tello Brugal","doi":"10.30986/2020.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2020.35","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to present the first critical edition of Vives’s Satellitium sive Symbola, a collection of symbols or wise sayings that was first published in 1524. Along with the symbols and the commentary given by Vives, a short introduction is provided, which outlines both the circumstances of composition and the main themes. The novelty of this edition lies in the fact that the number of items has been set to 239, twenty-six more than those contained in the traditional edition published by Gregori Maians (Maiansius) in 1783.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69316606","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":"Simone Poggi’s Neo-Latin Fables: a Jesuit in the Footsteps of Phaedrus","authors":"José C. Miralles Maldonado","doi":"10.30986/2020.171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2020.171","url":null,"abstract":"The Italian Jesuit Simone Maria Poggi (1685-1749) was an outstanding member of the “Academy of Arcadia”, where he was known as Nimesius Ergaticus. He wrote ten books of Latin fables under the inspiration of Phaedrus. These apologues were published posthumously by Giuseppe Boero in 1883. In their composition, the Jesuit from Bologna used iambic senarii, the metre employed by Phaedrus, and tried to adapt the Roman fables to his time and circumstances. In this article, I will offer an overview of Poggi’s Latin fables paying special attention to his prologues, epilogues and programmatic fables, in which, following Phaedrus’ example, our poet gives many clues about his sources and literary interests along with autobiographical issues. I will focus my research on Poggi’s relationship with his predecessors and on his conception of the fable not only as a literary subgenre but also as a very useful educational tool. Summing up, my aim will be to show that Poggi’s fable collection constitutes a remarkable and curious product of Phaedrus’ influence on Neo-Latin literature in the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69316594","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}