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After a brief introduction, the second chapter introduces the three major commentaries on the Tristia printed in the Renaissance: those of Bartolomaeus Merula (published 1499, Venice), Veit Amerbach (1549, Basel), and Hecules Ciofanus (1581, Antwerp) and analyzes their various contexts, styles, and approaches to the text. The third chapter shows the commentators at work, presenting a more focused look at how these commentators apply their differing methods to the same selection of the Tristia, namely Book 2. These two chapters combine to demonstrate how commentary on the Tristia developed over the course of the 16th century: it begins from an encyclopedic approach, becomes focused on rhetoric, and is later aimed at textual criticism, presenting a trajectory that becomes increasingly focused and philological. Chapter 4 is the first of two case studies in 16th-century Latin elegy. It examines the Polish poet laureate Klemens Janicki (1516-1543) and the book of elegies he provocatively entitled Tristium Liber. The chapter provides a biographical section, and elaborates the literary process by which his adaptation of Ovid functions by focusing on how Janicki assumes the Ovidian exilic persona as a tool for ethical and political critiques. The final chapter is a study of a selection of the Latin elegies written by Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560) while he was `exiled’ to Rome. It first examines the Tristia as nostalgic poetry, and shows how du Bellay uses the exilic persona to explore the idealization and privileging of the physical site of Rome and to establish himself in the aesthetic space of nostalgia created by Ovid in the Tristia and Ex Ponto as a means to assert his poetic autonomy.","abstract_html":"This study examines two facets of the reception of Ovid’s <i>Tristia</i> in the 16th century: its commentary tradition and its adaptation by Latin poets. It lays the groundwork for a more comprehensive study of the Renaissance reception of the <i>Tristia</i> by providing a scholarly platform where there was none before (particularly with regard to the unedited, unpublished commentary tradition), and offers literary case studies of poetic postscripts to Ovid’s <i>Tristia</i> in order to explore the wider impact of Ovid’s exilic imaginary in 16th-century Europe. After a brief introduction, the second chapter introduces the three major commentaries on the <i>Tristia</i> printed in the Renaissance: those of Bartolomaeus Merula (published 1499, Venice), Veit Amerbach (1549, Basel), and Hecules Ciofanus (1581, Antwerp) and analyzes their various contexts, styles, and approaches to the text. The third chapter shows the commentators at work, presenting a more focused look at how these commentators apply their differing methods to the same selection of the <i>Tristia</i>, namely Book 2. These two chapters combine to demonstrate how commentary on the <i>Tristia</i> developed over the course of the 16th century: it begins from an encyclopedic approach, becomes focused on rhetoric, and is later aimed at textual criticism, presenting a trajectory that becomes increasingly focused and philological. Chapter 4 is the first of two case studies in 16th-century Latin elegy. It examines the Polish poet laureate Klemens Janicki (1516-1543) and the book of elegies he provocatively entitled <i>Tristium Liber</i>. The chapter provides a biographical section, and elaborates the literary process by which his adaptation of Ovid functions by focusing on how Janicki assumes the Ovidian exilic persona as a tool for ethical and political critiques. The final chapter is a study of a selection of the Latin elegies written by Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560) while he was `exiled’ to Rome. It first examines the <i>Tristia</i> as nostalgic poetry, and shows how du Bellay uses the exilic persona to explore the idealization and privileging of the physical site of Rome and to establish himself in the aesthetic space of nostalgia created by Ovid in the <i>Tristia</i> and <i>Ex Ponto</i> as a means to assert his poetic autonomy.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Fuchs, Gabriel"],"institution":"The Ohio State University","degree_name":"Doctor of Philosophy","degree_level":"doctoral","degree_discipline":"Greek and Latin","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Coulson, Frank T."],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2013,"date_issued":"2013-08-09","date_published":"2013-08-09","updated_at":"2026-07-24T03:37:31Z","subjects":["Classical Studies","Literature","Ovid","Tristia","Klemens Janicki","Joachim du Bellay","Renaissance commentary","exile","elegy"],"languages":["English"],"rights":["unrestricted","This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. 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