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Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c.1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and sixteen chapters by leading scholars which are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More's Utopia, Milton's Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume. > The first full-scale guide to focus specifically on neo-Latin literature, accessible to all scholars and students, even if they do not know Latin. > Combines chapters on individual literary forms with others on themes and topics of common importance. > Provides advice on accessing and using manuscript and early printed sources, as well as a uniquely detailed bibliography of the available secondary literature.
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A G U ID E T O N E O -L A T IN L IT E R A T U R E Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c. 1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specific ally to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers essential background to the understanding of this material, in twenty-three chapters written by leading scholars - sixteen ofwhich are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now litde-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More’s Utopia, Milton’s Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume. MOUL is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Litera ture at King’s College London. She is a leader in the field of early modern Latín and English literature, with wide-ranging publica tions including articles on neo-Latin elegy, lyric and didactic poetry and Milton, Jonson, Donne and Cowley, as well as the reception of Horace, Pindar and Virgil. Her previous publications include Jonson, Horace, and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, 1010) and a translation of George Herbert's complete Latin poetry with intro duction and notes, for a new edition of Herbert edited with John Drury (George Herbert: Complete Poems, 2015). She is working on an anthology of neo-Latin verse, with commentary, and a major book on the interaction between neo-Latin and English poetry in Britain, *550—1700. victo ria A G U ID E TO N E O -L A T IN L IT E R A T U R E EDITED BY V IC T O R IA M O U L Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge U N IV E R S IT Y P R E SS University Printing Hou»c. Cambridge c m Bus, United Kingdom One Liberty PUra, 10th Floor. New York, ny 10006, USA 477 WUllamstown Road, Port Melbourne, v ie 3207, Australia 4841/14. ind Floor, Amari Road, Datyaganl, Delhi - tioooi, Indi« 79 Anson Road. #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part o f the University o f Cambridge It furthers the University's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest International levels of excellence www.eambrldge.org Information on tisis title: www.cambridge.org/97B110702919t 10.1017/97811)9248914 © Cambridge University Press 10 17 This publication is In copyright. Subject to statut