Catullus and His Renaissance Readers
by Julia Haig Gaisser
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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, universitylecturers, 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 show more which later generations (including our own) would read the poet, but also provide windowsinto 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. show lessTags
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Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, and a past president of the American Philological Association. She is the author of Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999), and The Fortunes of show more Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), as well as the editor of Catullus in English (2001), and Catullus (2007). show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 874.01 — Literature & rhetoric Latin & Italic literatures Latin lyric poetry to ca. 499, Roman period
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- PA6276 .G35 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Roman literature Individual authors
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