Printing Virgil

The Transformation of the Classics in the Renaissance
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-42134-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

In this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance. Using a new methodology developed at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Printing Virgil shows that the press established which commentaries were disseminated, provided signals for how the Virgilian translations were to be interpreted, shaped the discussion about the authenticity of the minor poems attributed to Virgil, and inserted this material into larger censorship concerns. The editions that were printed during this period transformed Virgil into a poet who could fit into Renaissance culture, but they also determined which aspects of his work could become visible at that time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kallendorf, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

1 Introduction

1 Data

2 Method

3 Application

2 Commentary

1 Introduction

2 Definition

3 Survey

4 Function

5 Conclusion

3 Translation

1 Introduction

2 Italy

3 France

4 Translations into Other Languages

5 Conclusion

4 Canonization

1 Introduction

2 The Opuscula and Its Authorship

3 The Opuscula Rhetoricized

4 Conclusion

Appendix: the Opuscula in Renaissance Editions of Virgil Printed in Venice

5 Censorship

1 Introduction

2 Taxonomy

3 Conclusion

6 Conclusion

1 Virgil Transformed

2 Final Thoughts

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Craig Kallendorf, Ph.D. (1982), University of North Carolina, is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He has written or edited twenty-five books in the fields of classical reception and book history.