Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World

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Edited by: Philip Ford (†), Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi

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With its striking range and penetrating depth, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by a host of distinguished international scholars, this comprehensive reference work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.

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Satire

(7.375 Wörter)

Autor(en): Marsh, David
¶ In his survey of the classical literature useful to an orator, the first-century rhetorician Quintilian famously asserts that ‘satire is an entirely Roman genre’ ( satura quidem tota nostra est): Satire, on the other hand, is all…

School Colloquia

(910 Wörter)

Autor(en): Deneire, Tom
¶ The school colloquium is a subgenre of the Renaissance dialogue. In humanist times the dialogue genre—which more or less starts with Petrarch’s De remediis utriusque fortunae (1366)—brought forth works of two different kinds…

Scribes

(957 Wörter)

Autor(en): Mengelkoch, Dustin
¶ The term scribe seemingly describes a neutral subject, that of a person who simply copied or wrote something by hand, for whatever purpose. Although it harkens back to the image of a mediaeval copyist …

Secundus, Joannes

(439 Wörter)

Autor(en): Stevenson, Jane
¶ Joannes Secundus (Jan Everaertz/Nicolai) was born in The Hague on 15 November 1511, the child of a humanist family. His mother was Elizabeth Bladel (1466–1547) and his father was Nicolas Everaertz (1…

Seneca’s Philosophical Works—Editions and Commentaries

(971 Wörter)

Autor(en): Kraye, Jill
¶ Before the late sixteenth century, there was confusion among Renaissance writers as to how the large corpus of works attributed to the two Senecas, father and son—consisting of rhetorical declamation…

Sermons

(956 Wörter)

Autor(en): Balserak, Jon
¶ The sermon, an oration by a religious leader, is integral to the life of the Christian church. Its origin may be traced, in a certain sense, to the sermon Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, thou…