The early modern world was profoundly bilingual: alongside the emerging vernaculars, Latin continued to be pervasively used well into the 18th century. Authors were often active in and conversant with both vernacular and Latin discourses. The language they chose for their writings depended on various factors, be they social, cultural, or merely aesthetic, and had an impact on how and by whom these texts were received. Due to the increasing interest in Neo-Latin studies, early modern bilingualism has recently been attracting attention. This volumes provides a series of case studies focusing on key aspects of early modern bilingualism, such as language choice, translations/rewritings, and the interferences between vernacular and Neo-Latin discourses.
Author(s): Alexander Winkler, Florian Schaffenrath (eds.)
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, 20
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 266
City: Leiden
Contributors vii
1. Introduction / Alexander Winkler and Florian Schaffenrath 1
2. Latin and the Vernacular in Biondo Flavio’s Thought and Works: a Study with a New Critical Edition of the Correspondence with the Duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza / Giuseppe Marcellino 11
3. Latin and Vernacular Interplay: Lazzaro Bonamico as Author and Character of Sperone Speroni’s 'Dialogo delle lingue' / Teodoro Katinis 36
4. 'Diserte Germanice loqui': the Cultural-Historical Status of the German Language in Franciscus Irenicus’s 'Germaniae Exegesis' (1518) / Ronny Kaiser 53
5. Ludvig Holberg’s 'Niels Klim' (1741) and the Irony of Reading and Writing in Latin / Thomas Velle 72
6. Neo-Latin and Vernacular Translation Theory in the 15th and 16th Centuries: the 'Tasks of the Translator' According to Leonardo Bruni and Étienne Dolet / Marianne Pade 96
7. Ariosto Latine Redditus: Early Modern Neo-Latin Rewritings of the 'Orlando Furioso' / Francesco Lucioli 113
8. Rewriting Vernacular Prose in Neo-Latin Hexameters: Francisco de Pedrosa’s 'Austriaca sive Naumachia' (1580) / Maxim Rigaux 130
9. Neo-Latin Epic Poetry on Telemach after Fénelon / Florian Schaffenrath 147
10. Coexistence and Contamination of Vernacular and Latin in Alessandro Braccesi’s Bilingual Tribute to Camilla Saracini: the Literatures of Siena and Florence between Illustrious Women and Neoplatonism / Federica Signoriello 166
11. The Reception of Petrarch and Petrarchists’ Poetry in Marcantonio Flaminio’s 'Carmina' / Giacomo Comiati 188
12. Pietro Angeli da Barga’s 'Syrias' (1582–91) and Contemporary Debates over Epic Poetry / Alexander Winkler 212
13. Didactic Poetry as Elitist Poetry: Christopher Stay’s 'De poesi didascalica dialogus' in the Context of Classical and Neo-Latin Didactic Discourse / Claudia Schindler 232
Index 251
