{"title":"A Humanist Autograph Lost and Found: Mattia Lupi’s \"Annales Geminianenses\"","authors":"Tedd A. Wimperis","doi":"10.30986/2018.047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.047","url":null,"abstract":"Mattia Lupi (1380‑1468), an early humanist of San Gimignano, was locally famous as the author of a Neo‑Latin epic in ten books, \"Annales Geminianenses\", on the history and lore of his native city. This study examines an early witness to this text, shelfmarked ms. 8 in the Wilson Special Collections Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This witness predates the three known manuscript copies of the poem, and has not been recognized by previous scholarship on Lupi and his work. Moreover, comparison of Chapel Hill ms. 8 with known examples of Mattia Lupi’s hand reveals this unstudied manuscript to be an autograph text of the \"Annales Geminianenses\", drafted by the author himself between 1463 and 1468.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"47-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42332664","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":"Preface and Mission Statement","authors":"J. D. Keyser","doi":"10.30986/2018.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44377305","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":"'Salve atque vale, aselle': Satire and Consolation in Laura Cereta’s \"In asinarium funus oratio\"","authors":"Quinn Griffin","doi":"10.30986/2018.069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.069","url":null,"abstract":"The humanist Laura Cereta of Brescia (1469-1499) produced during her lifetime one collection of letters and a Latin dialogue entitled \"In asinarium funus oratio\" (\"Oration on the Funeral of a Donkey\"). In this dialogue, Cereta herself appears as the chief interlocutor, consoling the donkey’s owners with a blend of ancient philosophies. This paper will further the understanding of Cereta’s Oratio in three ways: first, by placing it in the context of the humanist and classical genres of dialogue, consolation, and satirical encomium; second, by considering the relevance of the donkey to the work as a whole; and finally, by exploring Cereta’s reception of classical authors in the context of her consolation. The paper argues that Cereta’s blending of genres and use of a donkey as the subject of her oration work to create a safe space for the humanist woman to showcase her rhetorical talents.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"69-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47047401","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 Fairytale of Nicolas Denisot and the Seymour Sisters","authors":"H. Vredeveld","doi":"10.30986/2018.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.143","url":null,"abstract":"Skeptical voices notwithstanding, Anne, Margaret, and Jane Seymour are still widely assumed to have written the Hecatodistichon (1550), a set of 104 Latin distichs memorializing Queen Marguerite of Navarre. The story of their authorship goes back to the girls’ sometime tutor, Nicolas Denisot (1515‑1559). His account, however, must be understood as a kind of fairytale in which the sisters are turned into princesses, while Denisot himself plays the wizard‑tutor. The distichs’ true author is Denisot. Proof comes from both internal and philological evidence. The work’s sources, it turns out, are far too wide‑ranging and recondite for beginning Latin pupils like the Seymours. Further proof is gleaned from comparing the Hecatodistichon with the manuscript that Denisot wrote on the death of Henry VIII and presented to Edward VI in early 1547. Both works draw on the same core of continental poets, in particular Tito and Ercole Strozzi and Helius Eobanus Hessus.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"143-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47813076","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":"HL 67.1 Front Matter","authors":"J. D. Keyser","doi":"10.30986/2018.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48534385","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":"Die Bücher des Humanisten Christophe de Longueil: das Römische Inventar von 1519","authors":"T. Daniels","doi":"10.30986/2018.091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30986/2018.091","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers an edition, with introduction and analysis, of the hitherto unknown catalogue of books belonging to the Flemish humanist Christophe de Longueil (1485‑1522), which was drafted in 1519 in Rome. Though de Longueil’s biography is well known, a closer study of his library sheds new light on his intellectual background and humanist interests, not least because the inventory also lists some of de Longueil’s own works that were previously unknown. Furthermore, the paper places the catalogue within its historical context, discussing de Longueil’s ties with the notary Jacobus Apocellus and the banker Lorenzo di Bartolomeo Bartolini, and tracing the further history of the notarial act and the library. The analysis contributes to a better understanding of de Longueil’s journey to and his departure from Rome in the wake of the famous trial against him for having allegedly commited a crimen laesae maiestatis against the Eternal City.","PeriodicalId":52918,"journal":{"name":"Humanistica Lovaniensia","volume":"67 1","pages":"91-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69316971","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}