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Catullus and His Renaissance Readers

Catullus and His Renaissance Readers

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0198148828
ISBN13: 9780198148821
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Apr 8 1993
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
This is the first general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. After a brief introduction tracing the transmission of the poet from antiquity to the middle of the fifteenth century, the book follows his reception and interpretation by editors, commentators, university lecturers, and poets from the first edition (1472) through the sixteenth century. The focus is on Catullus but also on his Renaissance readers. Their text and interpretations not only influenced the ways in which later generations (including our own) would read the poet, but also provide windows into their own intellectual and historical worlds, which include Poliziano's Florence, Rome under the Medici Pope Leo X and his puritanical successor Adrian VI, the Paris of Ronsard and Marc-Antoine de Muret, post-Tridentine Rome, and sixteenth-century Leiden--as well as fifteenth-century Verona, where Catullus was an object of patriotic veneration, and Pontano's Naples, where poets learned to read and imitate him through Martial's imitations.

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