Catullus and His Renaissance Readers

Zusatztext Gaisser has written a book which must be the first to focus in such meticulous detail on the publishing history and commentary tradition of an ancient author in the Renaissance ... She takes us deftly through a maze of textual errors and emendations! tracing the legacy of both in successive editions ... not only a discriminating guide ... She is also a profoundly knowledgeable commentator. Klappentext This is the first general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. After a brief introduction tracing the transmission of the poet from antiquity to the middle of the fifteenth century, the book follows his reception and interpretation by editors, commentators, university lecturers, and poets from the first edition (1472) through the sixteenth century. The focus is on Catullus but also on his Renaissance readers. Their text and interpretations not only influenced the ways in which later generations (including our own) would read the poet, but also provide windows into their own intellectual and historical worlds - which include Poliziano's Florence, Rome under the Medici Pope Leo X and his puritanical successor Adrian VI, the Paris of Ronsard and Marc-Antoine de Muret, post-Tridentine Rome, and sixteenth-century Leiden - as well as fifteenth-century Verona, where Catullus was an object of patriotic veneration, and Pontano's Naples, where poets learned to read and imitate him through Martial's imitations.First general study of Catullus in the Renaissance period Zusammenfassung A general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. The book follows his reception and interpretation by editors, commentators, university lecturers, and poets from the first edition (1472) through the 16th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Selective chronology; Introduction; Emendatio; Interpretatio; Prelectio; Commentarius; Imitatio; Parodia; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Julia H Gaisser, Julia H. Gaisser, Julia Haig Gaisser, Julia Haig (Professor of Latin and Eugeni Gaisser, Gaisser Julia Haig
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.1993
• EAN: 9780198148821
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814882-1
• No. of pages: 460
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, European History, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets