Acta Toronto 1988

 

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Torontonensis. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Toronto 8 August to 13 August 1988. Ed. Alex. Dalzell, Ch. Fantazzi, R. J. Schoeck. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 86 (Binghamton, N. Y., 1991).

 

Contents

PLENARY PAPERS

Maurice Lebel, Le concept de l'encyclopaedia dans l'oeuvre de Guillaume Budé 1

Paul Gerhard Schmidt, Das Diarium in Mittelalter und Renaissance 25

Minna Skafte Jensen, The Language of Eternity: The Role of Latin in 16th-Century Danish Culture 41

Francesco Tateo, Le armi e le lettere: Per la storia di un tópos umanistico 63

 

SEMINARS

THOMAS MORE AND BIOGRAPHY

Organizer: Elizabeth McCutcheon Participants: Germain Marc'hadour, Thomas Stapleton's Use of More's English Works (1557) in his Vita Thomae Mon (1588) 83

Elizabeth McCutcheon, Puns, Paradoxes, and Heuristic Inquiry: The "De Servis" Section of More's Utopia 91

R. J. Schoeck, Neo-Latin Resources for Biography: A Preliminary View 101

 

ERASMUS AND LITERARY CRITICISM

Organizers: Robert Sider and Erika Rummel Participants: Laurel Carrington, Erasmus on the Use and Abuse of Metaphor 111

Erika Rummel, Probati autores as Models of the Biblical Translator 121

Robert Sider, Erasmus on the Epistle to the Romans: A "Literary" Reading 129

 

EPISTOLOGRAPHY

Organizer: Judith Rice Henderson Chair: Emil J. Polak Participants: Emil J. Polak, The Present State of Scholarship in Renaissance Epistolography (Abstract) 137

Charles Fantazzi, The Epistolae ad exercitationem accommodatae of Gasparino Barzizza 139

Judith Rice Henderson, The Composition of Erasmus' Opus de conscribendis epistolis: Evidence for the Growth of a Mind 147

 

BILINGUALISM: LATIN AND THE VERNACULAR AT THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Organizers and participants: Gilbert Ouy and Serge Lusignan: Le bilinguisme latin-français à la fin du Moyen Age 155

 

COMMUNICATIONS

Fokke Akkerman, A Spinozistic Perspective on the Jephthah Tragedies by George Buchanan (c. 1643) and Joost van den Vondel (I659) 165

Marianne Alenius, Learned Scandinavian Women in the 17th and 18th Centuries 177

Dominic Baker-Smith, Florens Wilson and the Politics of Irenicism 189 William Barker, Richard Mulcaster's Positions and Girolamo Mercuriale's De arte gymnastica 199

Lise Bek, The Problem of Faction Versus Fiction in Early Renaissance Art Theory 209

Charles Béné, Les traductions françaises du Mantouan 221

Günter Berger, John Barclay's Euphormio: Zur Rezeption eines neulateinischen Bestsellers in Frankreich 231

Steven Berkowitz, Thomas Vincent's Paria 241

Eckhard Bernstein, Creating Humanist Myths: Two Poems by Ulrich von Hutten 249

Robert W. Carrubba, Engelbert Kaempfer and the Myth of the Whirlpools of the Caspian Sea 261

Paul M. Clogan, The Renaissance Commentators on Statius 273

Marie-Madeleine De La Garanderie, Aspects de l'exégèse de Charles de Bovelles 281

O. A. W. Dilke, Latin Interpretations of Ptolemy's Geographia 293 Nöelle-Marie Egretier, Signification historique et valeur littéraire du De Unitate de Reginald Pole 301

K. A. E. Enenkel, Hercules in bivio und andere Scheidewege: Die Geschichte einer Idee bei Petrarca 307

Robert J. Fink, French Latin: Literary Hybridizing in the Renaissance 319

Karsten Friis-Jensen, Historiography and Humanism in Early Sixteenth-Century Scandinavia 325

E. V. George, Fanciful Journeys in Vives' Early Writing 335

Donald Gilman, The Reconstruction of a Genre: Carolus Sigonius and the Theorization of Renaissance Dialogue 345

Roger Green, Scaliger, Vinet, and the Text of Ausonius 357

M. J. Heath, Allegory, Rhetoric and Spirituality: Erasmus's Early Psalm Commentaries 363

Chris L. Heesakkers, Erasmus's Suspicions of Aleander as the Instigator of Alberto Pio 371

Johannes Irmscher, Ehrenfried Walther Graf von Tschirnhaus (1651-1700) als neulateinischer Schriftsteller 385

Howard Jones, An Eighteenth-Century Refutation of Epicurean Physics: The Anti-Lucretius of Melchior de Polignac (1747) 393

Emily Kearns, The Prologues of Comoedia sacra and Their Classical Models 403

Andrzej Kempfi, De Regni Poloniae cum regnis vicinis praesertimque Germanico rationibus mutuis ab Ioanne Zamoscio in oratione a. 1573 Lutetiae Parisiorum typis excusa adumbratis 413

Giovanna Lazzi, Cultura e linguaggio figurativo nei codici miniati benedettini della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze 421

Manfred Lentzen, Zur Problematik von "vita activa" und "vita contemplativa" in den Disputationes Camaldulenses von Cristoforo Landino 429

Kenneth Lloyd Jones, Une étoffe bigarée ... : Dolet critique, du style érasmien 439

Walther Ludwig, The Beginnings of Catullan Neo-Latin Poetry 449

Jean-Claude Margolin, Sur les traces de Louis Aleaume, Seigneur de Verneuil, poète neo-latin 457

James V. Mehl, Johannes Murmellius' Scoparius (1517-18): Another German Defense of Humanistic Study 471

Clarence H. Miller, The Liturgical Context of Erasmus's Hymns 481

Leo Miller, Anna Maria van Schurman's Appeal for the Education of Women 491

Angela Minicucci, Quaenam apud Thomam Campanellam in Theologicis ad Plautum ad Terentium et ad Vergilium redeant 499

Ann Moss, Printed Commonplace Books in the Renaissance 509

Lothar Mundt, Zu den "Amores" (1542) des Simon Lemnius 519 Colette Nativel, Partes orationis et partes pingendi: Rhétorique antique et peinture au XVIIe siècle dans le De pictura veterum de Franciscus Junius 529

Henk Nellen and Edwin Rabbie, Grotius's Fame as a Poet 539

Karl August Neuhausen, Indis Americanis quae cum veteribus Helvetiis intercedere necessitudo sit visa Sepulvedae Bartholomaei Casai adversario novi orbis ad antiquum referendi specimen 549

Marianne Pade, The Dedicatory Letter as a Genre: The Prefaces of Guarino Veronese's Translations of Plutarch 559

Jan N. Pendergrass, The Latin Correspondence of Jean de Pins: Ms. 215 of the Municipal Library of Nîmes 569

Johann Ramminger, Humanist Poetry and Its Classical Models: A Collection from the Court of Emperor Maximilian I 581

Stella P. Revard, Cowley's Anacreontiques and the Translation of the Greek Anacreontea 595

Lucia Gualdo Rosa, Le lettere familiari di Leonardo Bruni: Alcuni esempi della loro diffusione in Italia nel primo '400 609

Philippe Joseph Salazar, La Culture du style dans les Epistolae de J.-L. Guez de Balzac 621

Pieter Schoonbeeg, Bartholomaeus Coloniensis: Two Fables 631

Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, La Danse macabre, the English Dance of Death, and William Drury's Mors Comoedia 645

Paul R. Sellin, The Seventeenth-Century Taxonomy of Arts and Sciences in G. J. Vossius's De artium et scientiarum natura and John Milton's "Curriculum" in Of Education 655

Peter Sharratt, Marc-Antoine Muret: The Teaching of Literature and the Humanistic Tradition 665

M. J. Silverthorne, Civil Society and State, Law and Rights: Some Latin Terms and Their Translation in the Natural Jurisprudence Tradition 677

Joyce Monroe Simmons, Martial in the Renaissance: Three "Lost" Commentaries Found 689

Peggy Muñoz Simonds, The Herculean Lover in the Emblems of Cranach and Vaenius 697

Roger T. Simonds, Grotius and Legal Tradition: A Study in Ambivalence 711

Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Danish Neo-Latin Epic as Anti-Swedish Propaganda 721

Malcolm C. Smith, Latin Epigrams on Etienne Dolet 729

Carl P. E. Springer, Macarius Mutius's De Triumpho Christi: Christian Epic Theory and Practice in the Late Quattrocento 739

Jerzy Starnawski, Le Renvoi des Ambassadeurs grecs' de Jan Kochanowski et "L'Histoire de la destruction de Troye la Grant" de Jacques Millet 747

Karin Tilmans, Erasmus and Aurelius and Their Lives of Jerome: A Study of Cooperation and Dependence 755

J. Trapman, Erasmus's Precationes 769

Friedrich-K. Unterweg, English, Scottish, and Irish History in Continental Jesuit Drama 781

Marc Van Der Poel, Observations on J. L. Vives's Theory of Deliberative Oratory in De consultatione (1523) 803

Hermann Wiegand, Antiquitas Superata: In carminis epici Ubertini Carrarae (1642-1716), cuius index est Columbus, librum sextum observationes selectae 811

Michael Zappala, Vives's De Europae Dissidiis et Bello Turcico, the Quattrocento Dialogue and "Open" Discourse 823

Peter Zeeberg, Science versus Secular Life: A Central Theme in the Latin Poems of Tycho Brahe 831

 

SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CLÀSIC0S OF THE UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MÉXICO:

Roberto Heredia Correa, Nuestro proyecto de investigacion sobre los textos Latino-Mexicanos 839

Mauricio Beuchot, Latin Works by Some Sixteenth-Century Philosophers from New Spain 847

José Quiñones Melgoza, Las tragedias latinas de Stefano Tucci, especialmente la Iuditha 857

Ignacio Osorio-Romero, La enseñanza del Latin a los Indios 863

 

 

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