Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World
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Subject: History
Edited by: Philip Ford (†), Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi
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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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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Philology: Editions and Editorial Practices in the Early Modern Period
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¶ Viewed in hindsight, it is principally the overwhelming flood of editions that attests to the revivification of classical learning and literature propagated by Renaissance humanism. This flood did no…
Philology—France
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Philologia . . . olim ornatrix . . . hodie instauratrix atque interpolatrix1 Rigorous French classical scholarship begins with Guillaume Budé (1468–1540). Until the publication of Budé’s three scholarly works,
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Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Henry De Vocht
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¶ Hendrik Alfons De Vocht (Turnhout, 1878-Leuven, 1962), commonly referred to as Henry or Henri De Vocht, entered the Catholic priesthood after five years of study at the Seminary of Mechlin in 1902. H…
Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Jozef IJsewijn
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¶ Jozef A. M. K. IJsewijn (Zwijndrecht, 1932-Leuven, 1998) first came into contact with Neo-Latin literature as a student of Henry De Vocht at the University of Leuven, where he studied classical philo…
Pioneers of Neo-Latin Studies—Paul Oskar Kristeller
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¶ Paul Oskar Kristeller (Berlin, 1905–New York, 1999), one of the foremost Renaissance scholars of the twentieth century, also made ground-breaking contributions to the field of Neo-Latin studies. Kris…
Pliny (on Art)
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¶ Pliny the Elder’s
Naturalis historia, a Roman encyclopaedic text of the first century bce, was the most important reference on the subject of natural history during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It was als…