INTRODUCTION TO NEO-LATIN LITERATURE 1350-1700

Preliminary Reading List

Language

• Wheelock's Latin, Frederick M. Wheelock, rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York: HarperCollins, 2000; 6th edition or any other edition)

General

• Grahame Castor and Terence Cave, eds, Neo-Latin and the Vernacular in Renaissance France (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984)
• Dorothy Gabe Coleman, The Gallo-Roman Muse: Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
• Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Peter G. Bietenholz, editor; Thomas B. Deutscher, associate editor (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c.1985-1987)
• Philip Ford and Ingrid De Smet, eds, Eros et Priapus: Erotisme et obscénité dans la littérature néo-latine (Geneva: Droz, 1997)
• Yasmin Haskell and Philip Hardie, eds, Poets and Teachers: Latin Didactic Poetry and the Didactic Authority of the Latin Poet from the Renaissance to the Present (Bari: Levante, 1999)
• Jozef Ijsewijn, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies, Part I, History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature. Second entirely rewritten edition by Jozef IJsewijn (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990)
• Jozef Ijsewijn,Companion to Neo-Latin Studies, Part II, Literary, Linguistic, Philological and Editorial Questions. Second entirely rewritten edition by Jozef IJsewijn with Dirk Sacré (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1998)
• Renaissance Latin Verse: An Anthology, compiled and edited by Alessandro Perosa and John Sparrow (London: Duckworth, 1979) [ML6.V.41]
• Paul van Tieghem, 'La Littérature latine de la Renaissance: étude d'histoire littéraire européenne', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, IV (1944), 177-418; repr. Geneva, 1966

Giovanni Boccaccio

• Famous Women, ed. and trans. Virginia Brown, The I Tatti Renaissance Library (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003)
• Also available as De claris mulieribus; Die großen Frauen, ed. and trans. Irene Erfen and Peter Schmitt (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1995)
• Also available at the following URL: http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost14/Boccaccio/boc_m000.html
• Stephen Kolsky, The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris (New York: Peter Lang, 2003)
• Margaret Franklin, Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)

Joannes Secundus

• Basia. The latest available edition is Jean Second, OEuvres complètes, t. I, Basiorum liber et Odarum liber, ed. Roland Guillot (Paris: Champion, 2005)
• Also available on the internet: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/janus.html
• Philip Ford, 'The Basia of Joannes Secundus and Lyon Poetry', in Intellectual Life in Renaissance Lyon (Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 1993), pp. 113-33
• Leonard Forster, The Icy Fire: Five Studies in European Petrarchism (Cambridge: CUP, 1969)
• D. Price, Janus Secundus (Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1996)
• G. C. Schoolfield, Janus Secundus (Boston, 1980)

George Buchanan

• Tragedies, edited by P. Sharratt and P. G. Walsh (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1983)
• Also available at the following URL: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k52289m/fs.item
• Philip Ford, George Buchanan, Prince of Poets (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1982)
• Raymond Lebègue, George Buchanan: sa vie, son oeuvre, son influence en France et au Portugal (Coimbra, 1931)
• Raymond Lebègue, La Tragédie française de la Renaissance (Brussels, 1954)
• I. D. McFarlane, Buchanan (London: Duckworth, 1981)
• Mary Nyquist, The Plight of Buchanan's Jephtha: Sacrifice, Sovereignty, and Paternal Power: http://complit.dukejournals.org/content/60/4/331.full.pdf
• Donald Stone, French Humanist Tragedy (Manchester: MUP, 1974)

English Neo-Latinists

• John Milton, Latin Writings: A Selection edited and translated by John K. Hale (Assen and Tempe AZ: Van Gorcum and MRTS, 1998)
• Elizabeth Weston, Collected Writings ed. D. Cheney and B. Hosington (Toronto: Toronto UP, 2000)
• D. K. Money, The English Horace (Oxford: OUP for the British Academy, 1998)

Joachim du Bellay

• Oeuvres poétiques, vol. VII, Oeuvres latines: Poemata, ed. Geneviève Demerson (Paris: Société des textes français modernes, 1984) (STFM vol. 179)
• Marc Bizer, Imitation et conscience de soi dans la poésie latine de la Pléiade (Paris: Champion, 1995)
• Y. Hoggan, 'Aspects du bilinguisme littéraire chez Du Bellay: le traitement poétique des thèmes de l'exil dans les Poemata et Les Regrets', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 44 (1982), 65-79
• G. Hugo Tucker, The Poet's Odyssey: Joachim du Bellay and the Antiquitez de Rome (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990)

Jacopo Sannazaro

• Jacopo Sannazaro, Latin Poetry, translated by Michael C. J. Putnam, the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 102-141
• Jacopo Sannazaro, Piscatorial Eclogues and other writings
• Also available at the following URL: http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=drucke/348-1-quod-4 and http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/contesto.jsp?ordinata=pf1992149 [but you have to enter it through the home page]
• Paul Alpers, What is Pastoral? (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
• Paul Alpers, The singer of the 'Eclogues': a study of Virgilian pastoral (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1979).
• Paul Alpers, 'What is Pastoral?', Critical Inquiry 8, 437-60.
• Robert Cummings, 'Sannazaro and the Crisis of English Poetry', in Neo-Latin and the Pastoral, ed. Philip Ford and Andrew Taylor, special issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 33 (2006), pp. 194-216.
• S. K. Heninger, Jr., 'The Renaissance Perversion of Pastoral', Journal of the History of Ideas 22.2 (1961), 254-261 (available through electronic journals at JSTOR).
• William J. Kennedy, Jacopo Sannazaro and the Uses of Pastoral (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1983).
• Ellen Zetzel Lambert, Placing sorrow : a study of the pastoral elegy convention from Theocritus to Milton (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1976).
• Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, The Green Cabinet: Theocritus and the European Pastoral Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).
• Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (London: Chatto and Windus, 1973; Hogarth Press, 1985).

Marco Girolamo Vida

• The 'De arte poetica' of Marco Girolamo Vida, ed. R. G. Williams (New York, 1976)
• Also available at the following URL: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k59170m/f2.item
• Mario Di Cesare, 'The Ars poetica of Vida', Acta conventus neo-latini lovaniensis (Munich, 1973)
• Philip Hardie, 'Vida's De arte poetica and the Transformation of Models', in Apodosis: Essays Presented to Dr W. W. Cruikshank to Mark his Eightieth Birthday (London, 1992), 47-53

Philipp Melanchthon

• Encomium eloquentiae. (A photocopy of this text will be supplied.)
• Orations on Philosophy and Education, ed. Sachiko Kusukawa, trans. Christine F. Salazar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Also available at the following URL: http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=drucke/348-1-quod-3
• Olaf Berwald, Philipp Melanchthons Sicht des Rhetorik (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994)
• Kees Meerhof, Entre logique et littérature: autour de Philippe Melanchthon (Orléans: Paradigme, 2001)