Poets and teachers : Latin didactic poetry and the didactic authority of the Latin poet from the Renaissance to the present : proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Clare College, Cambridge, 9-11 September, 1996 / Edited by Yasmin Haskell and Philip Hardie.
Includes passages in Latin, some of them translated in English. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction by Yasmin Haskell -- Isabelle Pantin / Res contenta doceri? Renaissance Cosmological Poetry, Classical Models and the Poetics of Didascalica -- Adrian Nüssel / Sed quid ego hic Musas? On Invocations in Aonio Paleario, De Animorum Immortalitate (1535) and Scipione Capece, De Principiis Rerum (1546) -- Zweder von Martels / The Final Lines of Giovanni Aurelio Augurello's Chrysopoeia (1515) and Other Mysteries -- Yasmin Haskell / Between Fact and Fiction: the Renaissance Didactic Poetry of Fracastoro, Palingenio and Valvasone -- Geoffrey Eatough / Fracastoro's Beautiful Idea -- Philip Ford / Claude Quillet's Callipaedia (1655): Eugenics Treatise or Pregnancy Manual? -- David Money / A Symphony in Gray and Browne: Was Eighteenth-Century Didactic Poetry off Colour? -- Jacqueline Glomski / Poetry to Teach the Writing of Poetry: Laurentius Corvinus'Carminum Structura (1496) -- Alejandro Coroleu / Some teachers on a Poet: the Uses of Poliziano's Latin Poetry in the Sixteenth-Century Curriculum -- Jean Braybrook / Remy Belleau's Macaronic Poem, De Bello Huguenotico, and the French Wars of Religion -- Germaine Greer / Safe Sex in the Seventeenth Century: the pseudo-Petronius and the Cavaliers.
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