| Catullus and His Renaissance Readers Contributor(s): Gaisser, Julia Haig (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198148828 ISBN-13: 9780198148821 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1993 Annotation: This is the first general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. After a brief introduction tracing the transmission of the poet from antiquity to the middle of the fifteenth century, the book follows his reception and interpretation by editors, commentators, university lecturers, and poets from the first edition (1472) through the sixteenth century. The focus is on Catullus but also on his Renaissance readers. Their text and interpretations not only influenced the ways in which later generations (including our own) would read the poet, but also provide windows into their own intellectual and historical worlds - which include Poliziano's Florence, Rome under the Medici Pope Leo X and his puritanical successor Adrian VI, the Paris of Ronsard and Marc-Antoine de Muret, post-Tridentine Rome, and sixteenth-century Leiden - as well as fifteenth-century Verona, where Catullus was an object of patriotic veneration, and Pontano's Naples, where poets learned to read and imitate him through Martial's imitations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 874.01 |
| LCCN: 92014489 |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 5.8" W x 8.98" (1.63 lbs) 460 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. After a brief introduction tracing the transmission of the poet from antiquity to the middle of the fifteenth century, the book follows his reception and interpretation by editors, commentators, university lecturers, and poets from the first edition (1472) through the sixteenth century. The focus is on Catullus but also on his Renaissance readers. Their text and interpretations not only influenced the ways in which later generations (including our own) would read the poet, but also provide windows into their own intellectual and historical worlds, which include Poliziano's Florence, Rome under the Medici Pope Leo X and his puritanical successor Adrian VI, the Paris of Ronsard and Marc-Antoine de Muret, post-Tridentine Rome, and sixteenth-century Leiden--as well as fifteenth-century Verona, where Catullus was an object of patriotic veneration, and Pontano's Naples, where poets learned to read and imitate him through Martial's imitations. |