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Book SynopsisNeo-Latin, a truly interdisciplinary and multicultural field of study, has become especially relevant in today's global age. Latin does not belong to any particular country, but to the Republic of Letters with its high aims and universal appeal. A comprehensive critical anthology of Neo-Latin would thus be useful in the classroom, both in secondary school and on university level, as well as for independent scholars. The present volume is comprised of about fifty texts pertaining to geographical areas all around the world, spanning the 14th to the 20th centuries, written in a wide range of genres by authors of varied backgrounds, and touching on topics of dramatic importance for today. The language of the anthology is Latin, in accordance with the universality it aims to represent by its selection of texts.
Trade ReviewMinkova’s Florilegium is a book that has been sorely needed, and it is a rich addition to a field almost destitute of teaching resources.
Tom Hendrickson, M In Medias Res, October 23, 2018
If we expand our canon to make room for the authors included in this anthology, then students, scholars, and lovers of Latin everywhere will find an array of new texts and voices to inspire them.
Michael Fontaine, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.11.38 - http://www.bmcreview.org/2018/11/20181138.html
Anyone who wants to teach a survey course in Neo-Latin will find more here than he or she can possibly get through in a semester, and both the compiler and the publisher deserve our thanks for creating an alternative to the course packet compiled in haste, and in violation of copyright laws, that has served as a textbook in this field for most of us.
Craig Kallendorf, The Neo-Latin News Vol. 66, Nos. 3&4
It sustains the continuous tradition of Neo-Latin culture even in the twenty-first century, aims at being instructive to students and at cultivating those admirers of Latin who still revere classical Latin as a transnational communication tool of educated elites.
Josef Förster, Listy filologické / Folia philologica CXLII, 2019, 1–2
As a whole, Minkova’s anthology provides a useful collection of influential and fascinating Neo-Latin texts, both known, authoritative works as well as obscurer examples, reflecting the variety of this literature. This volume will be useful to any teacher preparing a class on Neo-Latin texts. But the readership will presumably be wider. The inclusion of important authorities such as Petrarch, Thomas More, and Erasmus provides interesting glimpses into a huge, still widely obscure corpus for scholars of the Renaissance and early modern world from a variety of fields—history, philosophy, the modern philologies, etc. One can only hope that the language of the edition will not only attract lovers of the Latin language, but also not deter interested groups from neighboring fields.
Johanna Luggin, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 1, Spring 2020, https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2019.498
Table of ContentsIndex auctorum, generum litterarum, operum, quae florilegio comprehenduntur Praefatio
Francisci Petrarcae (Francesco Petrarca) (1304-1374) epistulae, carmen epicum
Conspectus librorum
Epistulae ad Ciceronem
Epistula de ascensu Montis Ventosi
Africa
Laurentii Vallae (Lorenzo Valla) (1407-1457) declamatio sive praefatio ad enchiridion grammaticum
Conspectus librorum
De elegantia linguae Latinae prooemium primum.
Ioannis Ioviani Pontani (Giovanni Gioviano Pontano) (1429-1503) cantus pueriles
Conspectus librorum
De amore coniugali: Naeniae.
Michaelis Marulli Tarchaniotis (Μιχαήλ Μάρουλλος Ταρχανειώτης; Michele Marullo Tarcaniota) (ca 1453-1500) epigramma
Conspectus librorum
De laudibus Rhacusae.
Petri Martyris (Pietro Martire d’Anghiera) (1457-1526) historiae
Conspectus librorum
De orbe novo
Iacobi Sannazarii (Jacopo Sannazaro) (1458-1530) carmen epicum, carmen bucolicum
Conspectus librorum
De partu Virginis
Galatea
Ioannis Pici Mirandulae (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola) (1463-1494) oratio
Conspectus librorum
De dignitate hominis.
Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami (1466-1536) declamatio, epistulae (vita, vita sui ipsius etc.), colloquium scholasticum
Conspectus librorum
Stultitiae laus
Epistulae
Colloquium Abbatis et eruditae.
Thomae Mori (Thomas More) (1477/8-1535) mythistoria
Conspectus librorum
Utopia
Hieronymi Fracastorii (Girolamo Fracastoro) (1483-1533) carmen didacticum
Conspectus librorum
De morbo Gallico
Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri (Giulio Cesare della Scala) (1484-1558) epigrammata
Conspectus librorum
Urbes
Ioannis Genesii Sepulvedae (Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda) (ca1490-1573) historiae
Conspectus librorum
De orbe novo.
Ioannis Ludovici Vives (Juan Luis Vives) (1493-1540) colloquium scholasticum
Conspectus librorum
Linguae Latinae exercitatio: Corpus hominis exterius
Philippi Melanchthonis (Philipp Schwarzerd) (1497-1560) oratio
Conspectus librorum
De laude vitae scholasticae oratio.
Nicolai Winmanni (Nikolaus Wynmann) (ca1510-1550) dialogus
Conspectus librorum
Colymbetes
Ioannis (Iani) Secundi (Jan Everaerts) (1511-1536) carmina lyrica (distichi elegiaci, hendecasyllabi, pythiambi, glyconii)
Conspectus librorum
Basia
Ioannis Latini (Juan Latino) (1518?-ca1594) elegia, carmen epicum seu didacticum
Conspectus librorum
Ad catholicum et invictissimum regem Philippum elegia
Austrias
Augerii Busbequii (Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq) (1522-1592) epistulae
Conspectus librorum
Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor
Marci Antonii Mureti (Marc-Antoine Muret) (1526-1585) drama Senecanum
Conspectus librorum
Iulius Caesar
Ioannis Petri Maffei (Giovanni Pietro Maffei) (1533-1603) historiae
Conspectus librorum
Historiae Indicae
Iacobi Pontani (Jacob Spanmüller) (1542-1626) colloquia scholastica
Conspectus librorum
Progymnasmata Latinitatis sive dialogi
Iusti Lipsii (Joost Lips) (1547-1606) epistulae
Conspectus librorum
Epistulae ad Montanum; ad Iosephum Scaligerum
Iacobi Augusti Thuani (Jacques-Auguste de Thou) (1553-1617) historiae
Conspectus librorum
Historiae sui temporis
Ioannis Kepleri (Johannes Kepler) (1571-1630) fabula phantastica tractatui astronomico inserta
Conspectus librorum
Somnium seu de astronomia lunari.
Ioannis Barclaii (John Barclay) (1582-1621) mythistoria
Conspectus librorum
Argenis
Hugonis Grotii (Hugo de Groot) (1583-1645) opus iuridicum, carmen bucolicum
Conspectus librorum
Mare liberum
Myrtilus sive Idyllium nauticum
Thomae Hobbesii (Thomas Hobbes) (1588-1679) tractatus philosophicus
Conspectus librorum
De cive
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii (Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski) (1595-1649) odae Horatianae
Conspectus librorum
Odae
Iacobi Baldaei (Jacob Balde) (1604-1668) odae Marianae
Conspectus librorum
Odae
Annae Mariae a Schurman (Anna Maria van Schurman) (1607-1678) epistulae
Conspectus librorum
De vitae humanae termino
Problema practicum: num feminae Christianae conveniat studium litterarum.
Petri Danielis Huetii (Pierre-Daniel Huet) (1630-1721) satura (hodoeporicon)
Conspectus librorum
Iter Suecicum
Ubertini Carrarae (Ubertino da Carrara) (1642-1716) carmen epicum
Conspectus librorum
Columbus
Ludovici Holbergii (Ludvig Holberg) (1684-1754) mythistoria
Conspectus librorum
Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum
Raphaelis Landivarii (Rafael Landívar) (1731-1793) carmen didacticum et descriptivum
Conspectus librorum
Rusticatio Mexicana
Ioannis Pascoli (Giovanni Pascoli) (1855-1912) satura (carmina commixta)
Conspectus librorum
Catullocalvos
