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Estemporaneo di studi e testi sulla fortuna
dell'antico
POETS AND TEACHERS: LATIN DIDACTIC POETRY
AND THE DIDACTIC AUTHORITY OF THE LATIN POET FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT
edited by Yasmin Haskell and Philip Hardie, a cura di
Francesco De Martino, luglio 1999, pp. 211, £. 64.000 (€ 33,053)
From the Renaissance into early modernity,
hundreds of Latin didactic poems were produced on such diverse subjects as alchemy and
astronomy, horticulture and hunting, meteorology and magnetism, syphilis and smallpox. The
Latin poet-teacher maintained his vestigially oral authority in the face of the printing
press and the scientific textbook, the ascendancy of the vernacular languages, and of
renewed theoretical objections to the very existence of a ‘poetry of things’.
The papers in this collection embrace a wide variety of Latin poets and teachers from the
fifteenth to the eighteenth century; attention is also paid to macaronic and vernacular
writers, as well as to Latin poetry which teaches without strictly belonging to the
didactic ‘genre’.
Contents: Introduction by Yasmin Haskell - Isabelle
Pantin, Res contenta doceri? Renaissance Cosmological Poetry, Classical Models and the
Poetics of Didascalica - Adrian Nüssel, Sed quid ego hic Musas? On Invocations in
Aonio Paleario, De Animorum Immortalitate (1535) and Scipione Capece, De
Principiis Rerum (1546) - Zweder von Martels, The Final Lines of Giovanni
Aurelio Augurello’s Chrysopoeia (1515) and Other Mysteries - Yasmin
Haskell, Between Fact and Fiction: the Renaissance Didactic Poetry of Fracastoro, Palin
genio and Valvasone - Geoffrey Eatough, Fracastoro’s Beautiful Idea
- Philip Ford, Claude Quillet’s Callipaedia (1655): Eugenics Treatise or
Pregnancy Manual? - David Money, A Symphony in Cray and Browne: Was
Eighteenth-Century Didactic Poetry off Colour? - Jacqueline Glomski, Poetry to
Teach the Writing of Poetry: Laurentius Corvinus’ Carminum Structura (1496) - Alejandro
Coroleu, Some Teachers on a Poet: the Uses of Poliziano’s Latin Poetry in the
Sixteenth-Century Curriculum - Jean Braybrook, Remy Belleau ‘s Macaronic Poem,
De Bello Huguenotico, and the French Wars of Religion - Germaine Greer, Safe
Sex in the Seventeenth Century: the pseudo-Petronius and the Cavaliers.
In copertina: The Beekeeper,
woodcut by Sebastian Brandt, from Virgilii Opera, Strasbourg 1502, by permission
of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
ISBN 88-7949-205-5
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