Acta St Andrews 1982

 

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Sanctandreani. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, St Andrews 24 August to 1 September 1982. Ed. I. D. MacFarlane, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 38 (Binghamton, N. Y., 1986).

 

Contents

Foreword ix

 

A: Buchanan

C. J. Classen, The References to Classical Authors in Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum Historia 3

John Durkan, Native Influences on George Buchanan 31

Philip Ford, George Buchanan and the "Satyra in Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem" 43

Roger Green, George Buchanan's Psalm Paraphrases: Matters of Metre 51

Bernhard Kytzler, Buchanan's Poetry on Rome 61

J. G. Macqueen, An Acrostic Tribute to Thomas Ruddiman and his Edition of Buchanan's Works 69

John R. C. Martyn, New Poems by Buchanan, from Portugal 79

John R. C. Martyn, The Tragedies of Buchanan, Teive and Ferreira 85

P. G. Walsh, Buchanan and Classical Drama 99

 

B: Italy

Joseph R. Berrigan, Portrait of a Venetian as a Young Poet 113

Paul Richard Blum, Methoden und Motive der Platoninterpretation bei Marsilio Ficino 119

Charles Fantazzi, The Making of the De partu virginis 127

John H. Geerken, Roman Law and Constitutional Thought in Machiavelli 135

M. J. Mcgann, 1453 and all that: The End of the Byzantine Empire in the Poetry of Michael Marullus 145

Arthur Stephen Mcgrade, Ockham and Valla on Enjoyment and Pleasure 153

Alain Michel, Les théories de la beauté littéraire de Marsile Ficin à Torquato Tasso 159

Mary Ella Milham, Platina and the Illnesses of the Roman Academy 173

Phillips Salman, Barbara's Themistius and Gelli's Letture: Philosophy Lost in Translation 177

Carl C. Schlam, Cassandra Fidelis as a Latin Orator 185

Gilbert Tournoy, Francesco Florio, nouvelliste italien 193

 

C: Humanists connected with the Low Countries and Germany

Virginia W. Callahan, Andrea Alciati's View of Erasmus: Prudent Cunctator and Bold Counselor 203

Philip Dust, Luis Vives' Pacifist Sociology in De Pacificatione 211

Arthur Eyffinger, Hugo Grotius, Poet and Man of Letters 217

Henri Gibaud, Verbal Subordination in the Vulgate and in Erasmus's First version of the new testament as sampled in acts 15 (1506-09) 225

A. Jolidon, Histoire d'un opuscule d'Erasme: La Brevissima maximeque compendiaria conficiendarum epistolarum formula 229

Christiane Lauvergnat-Gagniere, Les Adages d'Erasme et la Censure Tridentine 245

Michel Magnien, Scaliger et Erasme 253

Constant Matheeussen, The Date of the Opuscula varia of J. L. Vives 263

John C. Olin, Eloquentia, Eruditio, Fides: Erasmus's Life of Jerome 269

P. H. Schrijvers, Literary and Philosophical Aspects of Lipsius's De Constantia in Publicis Malis 275

R. W. Truman, Sebastian Fox Morcillo's De regni regisque institutione (Antwerp, 1556): Humanist Approaches to Empiricism 283

Harry Vredeveld, The Unsuspected Source of Eobanus Hessus's Victoria Christi ab Inferis 293

 

D: France

Dorothy Gabe Coleman, Du Bellay, Turnèbe and Montaigne 299

Colette Demaiziere, Du recours à l'histoire comme argument linguistique dans deux œuvres latines du seizième siècle 309

Genevieve Demerson, Présence de Virgile chez Du Bellay 319

Ellen S. Ginsberg, Peregrinations of the Kiss: Thematic Relationships between Neo-Latin and French Poetry in the Sixteenth Century 331

Robert Ginsberg, Text and Argument in Descartes' First and Second Meditations 343

James S. Hirstein, La Rome de Virgile et celle du seizième siècle dans "Ad Ianum Avansonium apud summum pont. oratorem regium, Tyberis" de Joachim Du Bellay 351

K. Lloyd-Jones, Fatum in the Writings of Etienne Dolet 359

Claude Longeon, Cohérences d'Etienne Dolet 363

Ann Moss, The Counter-Reformation Latin Hymn 371

Malcolm Smith, Montaigne and the Christian Foes of Tacitus 379

Georges Soubeille, Un recueil poétique hors du commun, Les Naeniae de Salmon Macrin (1550) 391

James J. Supple, "Nobilium culpa iacent literae": Guillaume Budé and the Education of the French "Noblesse d'Épée" 399

Thomas Thomson, The Poemata of Théodore de Bèze 409

Ian J. Winter, Classical and Neo-Classical Influences in the Life and Essais of Michel de Montaigne 417

Valerie J. Worth, Etienne Dolet: From a Neo-Latin Epic Poem to a Chronicle in French Prose 423

 

E: Great Britain

C. W. T. Blackwell, Humanism and Politics in English Royal Biography: The Use of Cicero, Plutarch and Sallust in the Vita Henrici Quinti (1438) by Titus Livius de Frulovisi and the Vita Henrici Septimi (1500-1503) by Bernard André 431

Germain Marc'Hadour, Fuitne Thomas Morus in Aulam Pertractus? 441

Elizabeth Mccutcheon, Mendacium Dicere and Mentiri: A Utopian Crux 449

John Mulryan, Neo-Latin Sources in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy 459

Raimund Pfister, Thomas Ruddimans Grammaticae Latinae Institutions 465

Peter A. Redpath, Nominalism in the Moral Teaching of Hobbes 471

Lawrence V. Ryan, A Neo-Latin Version of Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid 481

Roger T. Simonds, Bacon's Legal Learning: Its Influence on His Philosophical Ideas 493

A. M. Stewart, "Aut ridenda omnia aut flenda sunt": Heraklit und Demokrit in Schottland 503

Christopher A. Upton et John M. Fletcher, The Latinity of an Oxford College 511

John Wands, The Theory of Climate in the English Renaissance and Mundus Alter et Idem 519

K. J. Wilson, Vsque ad aras: Thomas Elyot's Friendship with Thomas More 531

 

F: Poland

Andrzej Kempfi, De Joannis Calvini epistula dedicatoria ad Poioniae regem Sigismundum Augustum directa 537

Jerzy Starnawski, Le poème latin de Jan Kochanowski concernant Wanda (Élégie 1.15) 543

Lidia Winniczuk, The Latin Manuals of Epistolography in Poland in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 549

 

G: Miscellaneous

Robert W. Carrubba, Engelbert Kaempfer's Account of the Ordeal by Crocodile in Siam 561

Paul M. Clogan, Literary Criticism in the Liber Catonianus 569

Roger Green, Ausonius in the Renaissance 579

Arnold L. Kerson, Rafael Landivar's Rusticatio Mexicana and the Enlightenment in America 587

Monique Mund-Dopchie, François Portus et les Tragiques grecs 597

Peggy Munoz Simonds, Freedom of Speech and the Emblem Tradition 605

Marjorie Curry Woods, Poetic Digression and the Interpretation of Medieval Literary Texts 617

Dieter Wuttke, Ernst Robert Curtius and Aby M. Warburg 627

Robert Ginsberg, Report on the Seminar "Varieties of Nominalism from Cusa to Montaigne" 637

 

Index 639

 

 

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