{"title":"Two Textual Notes on Maffeo Vegio’s Antonias","authors":"M. Shumilin","doi":"10.30986/2018.469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.469","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent edition of Maffeo Vegio’s Antonias, the manuscripts’ readings should be restored in two places, since the conjectures introduced by the poem’s editor distort both the text’s syntax and its metrical correctness","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82984865","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":"Ange Cappel et l’Agricola de Tacite. Une traduction ancrée dans son époque","authors":"Kevin Bovier","doi":"10.30986/2018.301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.301","url":null,"abstract":"First to publish a French translation of Tacitus’ Agricola, the Protestant Ange Cappel worked on this book in a troubled period, shortly after the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. La vie de Jules Agricola (1574) is dedicated to the English Queen Elizabeth I; Cappel sought her protection, because she welcomed and supported some French Protestants after the massacre. The translator wanted to shed a light on this little‑known text and simplify the obscure style of Tacitus. In this way he also hoped to widen the readership of the Roman historian, who according to Cappel wrote only for politicians. Cappel used the Roman historian himself as a behaviour’s guide for court scholars under the rule of a tyrant.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75453719","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":"Briefe von Thomas Jordanus von Klausenburg an Carolus Clusius","authors":"Robert Offner, P. Pauly","doi":"10.30986/2018.343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.343","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the rich literature on Thomas Jordanus von Klausenburg (1540‑1586), the most important physician and scientist of Transylvanian origin of the sixteenth century, his correspondence has hardly been studied. This article presents five letters from Jordanus to the Flemish physician Carolus Clusius (1526‑1609), a famous botanist at the imperial court and the first chief doctor of the margravate of Moravia. The letters of 1574, 1575 and 1585 to Clusius provide a new insight into Jordanus’ scholarly network, including numerous contemporary scholars, his private life only a few months before his death, and his interest in botany, including experiments with sassafras oil","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86511646","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":"Classica Americana. An Addendum to the Censuses of Pre-1800 Latin Texts from British North America","authors":"S. McManus","doi":"10.30986/2018.427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.427","url":null,"abstract":"This article updates the censuses of North American Neo‑Latin prose and poetry undertaken by the late Leo M. Kaiser, to which it adds over one hundred and fifty items, preserved largely in manuscript collections in New England. The genres run the gamut of early modern Latin, from academic oratory to occasional verse, while the addendum also includes works by a number of notable figures in early American history, including Increase Mather (1639‑1723), James Logan (1674‑1751), William Shirley (1694‑1771), John Witherspoon (1722‑1794), John Phillips (1770‑1823) and Aaron Burr Sr. (1716‑1757). The census is prefaced by an introduction that places the works in their broader intellectual context and briefly discusses the life and learning of British America’s last humanist in the Renaissance mold, Ezra Stiles (1727‑1795), whose Latinity makes up a significant proportion of the addendum.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"167 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75087605","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":"James Leeke, George Herbert, and the Neo-Latin Contexts of The Church Militant","authors":"Lindsay Gibson, John Kuhn","doi":"10.30986/2018.379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.379","url":null,"abstract":"This article situates George Herbert’s poem The Church Militant in new Neo‑Latin contexts. Rather than reading the poem in relation to Herbert’s English poetry, as has often been done before, it argues that it has close generic ties to Anglo‑Latin miniature epics on the Gunpowder Plot. This article first shows how Herbert’s English poem draws on and revises elements of this tradition; it then turns to a little‑known manuscript translation of The Church Militant prepared immediately after its publication. The translation – which significantly revises Herbert’s original text – attempts to pull Herbert’s poem closer to the miniature epic tradition from which it had broken. Taken together, these contexts demonstrate the surprising proximity of this English poem to a Neo‑Latin poetic genre and shed new light on Herbert’s choice of the vernacular as a departure from the politics of the miniature epic tradition","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85227442","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":"Su tre corrispondenti di Marcantonio Sabellico. Proposte di identificazione","authors":"M. Laneri","doi":"10.30986/2018.237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.237","url":null,"abstract":"The collection of letters by Marcantonio Sabellico is characterized by a number of errors which have been passed down from the editio princeps (1502) to all subsequent printed editions. Within the frame of a study which aims to produce the first critical edition of these epistles, three letters are analyzed which have been variously misunderstood, especially as to the identity of the correspondents, that is: Georgios Bergikios, a philologist and copyist from Crete; Piero de’ Medici when he was very young and known as Piero il Fatuo (the eldest son and future successor of Lorenzo il Magnifico); and, finally, Emiliano Schenio, a poet from Piacenza who played a role in the humanistic debate concerning the auctor ad \"Herennium\"","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78245698","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":"An Admirer of Beccadelli’s Hermaphroditus: Antonio da Pescia","authors":"Luigi Silvano","doi":"10.30986/2018.473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.473","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides the first edition of a letter of praise to Antonio Beccadelli written by the humanist Antonio da Pescia. The epistle is further testimony to the success of the Hermaphroditus among Beccadelli’s contemporaries.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77793655","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":"Alter Theocritus? Joachim Camerarius’ griechische Supplemente zu Theokrits Herakliskos und dem sogenannten Herakles leontophonos","authors":"S. Weise","doi":"10.30986/2018.257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.257","url":null,"abstract":"Since editions of Theocritus from the early sixteenth century, the two poems Heracliscus (“Little Heracles”) and the so‑called Heracles leontophonos (“Heracles the Lionslayer”) have been regarded as incomplete. This diagnosis was confirmed at least for the Heracliscus by the publication of a papyrus in 1930, whereas the Heracles leontophonos is now generally accepted as being complete. This paper presents the Greek supplements made for these poems by the German Hellenist Joachim Camerarius (1500‑1574) in collaboration with his friend and colleague Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488‑1540). The texts are analysed with regard to their sources and relations to the originals. Thus, Camerarius is shown to be a good observer of the texts, who makes extensive use of ancient sources (e.g. Homer, the Aspis and the Megara) for his supplements. An edition with German translation is given in the Appendix, along with Hessus’ Latin rendering of Camerarius’ Greek supplements.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"556 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77225328","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":"Presenze omeriche e oraziane negli Elegiarum libri quattuor di Jan Kochanowski. L’Iliade e i Carmina oraziani nell’elegia 3.7","authors":"F. Cabras","doi":"10.30986/2018.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.209","url":null,"abstract":"Contrary to what critics have stated, the Polish poet Jan Kochanowski appears to be more interested in a direct imitation of the Homeric poems than an imitation of Latin poets such as Propertius or Ovid, who tried to “re‑write” Homer in their poems. This article discusses the connection between Kochanowski’s elegy 3.7 and Homer’s Iliad. It also shows how the imitation of Homer serves a specific purpose: by quoting Horace, Kochanowski reflects upon the ability poetry has to eternize its dedicatees. The Homeric heroes are still known thanks to Homer’s poems; Ossolinski, the dedicatee of the elegy, will be known forever thanks to Kochanowski’s verses.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"209-229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48116043","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":"A Tale of Two Languages: Latin, the Vernacular and Leonardo Bruni’s \"Civic Humanism\"","authors":"H. Schadee","doi":"10.30986/2018.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.011","url":null,"abstract":"This article reconstructs the views of Leonardo Bruni concerning the different natures, historical trajectories, and domains of Latin and the Florentine vernacular. It argues that his encomia of Florentine culture are careful to distinguish the two, and indeed that this distinction holds the key to reconciling the seemingly contradictory positions regarding Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio espoused in his \"Dialogues for Pier Paolo Vergerio\". Bruni’s concept of the Latin language, moreover, explains why he believed that humanists were required to restore it to its Ciceronian glory. If Latin regained the functions it had had in Cicero’s day, this would exclude the Ciompi and the lower guilds from Florentine politics, and thus refashion Florence in the image of the Roman Republic both linguistically and politically. The article therefore salvages some of Hans Baron’s 'civic humanism', in that it shows Bruni – Baron’s archetypical civic humanist – to advocate self-government by the Latinate elites","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"11-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43986633","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}