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Jesuit Georgic Poetry
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¶ The best known Jesuit georgic poems are by the French Jesuits René Rapin and Jacques Vanière, and they treat of respectably georgic topics—Rapin’s, in four books, of French formal gardens (
Horti, 1665), Vanière’s, in no less than…
The Passion(s) of Jesuit Latin
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¶ Was there ever such a thing as Jesuit Latin, and if so, how and why did it die? By the mid-eighteenth century,
philosophes such as Jean le Rond d’Alembert seem to have associated belletristic Latin primarily with the Soci…
Medical Didactic Poetry
(877 words)
¶ Notwithstanding Petrarch’s
Invective contra medicum, which set pious, learned poets in opposition to atheistic, barbarian physicians, early modern doctors were never shy about putting their prescriptions…
Latin and the Enlightenment
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¶ In his ‘Preliminary Discourse’ to the
Encyclopédie (1751), d’Alembert granted the usefulness of Latin as a scientific language but lamented, perhaps disingenuously a general decline in its use.1 In fact, Latin remained a vigor…
Psychiatry—Neo-Latin Sources for its History
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¶ Psychiatry as a medical specialism may not have existed before the nineteenth century, but in the early modern period, Latin-writing physicians, philosophers, theologians, religious writers, and lega…
The Classification of Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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¶ To begin at the beginning, or, as Lucretius would have put it,
principio: Neo-Latin didactic poetry is, by and large, propagated from the Roman cultivars of Virgil’s
Georgics, Lucretius’s
De rerum natura, Ovid’s
Ars amatoria and
Remedi…
