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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Neo-Latin"”.
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The Neo-Latin Supplements to Virgil’s Aeneid, 1400–1700
<p>In this dissertation, I examine the Neo-Latin supplements to Virgil’s <em>Aeneid </em>(1400–1700), in particular, Pier Candido Decembrio’s <em>Liber Decimus-Tertius Eneidos </em>(1419), Maffeo Vegio’s <em>Supplementum </em>(1428), Jan van Foreest’s <em>Exequiae Turni </em>(1651), and the …
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Neo-Latin America: the poetics of the "New World" in early modern epic. Studies in José Manuel Peramás's 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza 1777)
… of the thesis, above all––given to material in Latin. Latin was the third of the international literary languages of the Iberian imperial world; it is also by far the most neglected, having fallen between the cracks of modern disciplinary boundaries in their current configurations. The thesis …
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Letters of a Learned Lady : Sophia Elisabeth Brenner's Correspondence, with an Edition of her Letters to and from Otto Sperling the Younger
… the preserved letters to and from her written in Latin, Swedish, French and Italian. Her Neo-Latin correspondence with the Dane Otto Sperling the Younger is presented in a critical edition with English translation and commentary. The other preserved letters are presented in English summaries. In …
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Political Petrarchism: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Community in Early Modern Italy
… including letters, chronicles, treaties and the neo-Latin epic, this dissertation examines the centrality of the classically-informed, philosophical idea of friendship (amicitia) in the community-building discourse of Francesco Petrarca's Italy. The first chapter examines Petrarch's treatment of …
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Representations of ancient Cynicism in French texts, 1546-1615
… and Medieval sources, and how they are used in neo-Latin and vernacular collections of sayings, miscellanies and encyclopedias. Adaptation and invention of Cynic sayings in collections show how the Cynic tradition encourages improvisation. The discursive treatment of miscellanies illustrates the …
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Ludvig Holberg's mobile novel Niels Klim's travels underground (1741-1745) : a functionalistic approach to its place in European literary history
… both fictional and non-fictional, in Danish, Latin and French, Holberg is known for putting on different masks throughout his career by means of pseudonyms, fictive characters, and intertextual play. In scholarship, Holberg’s protean nature has grown into an opposition between the modern …