1st Edition
The Virgilian Tradition II Books and Their Readers in the Renaissance
Introduction
Part 1: Renaissance Readings of Virgil
1. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader
2. Historicizing the "Harvard School": Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Italian Renaissance Scholarship
3. Representing the Other: Ercilla’s La Araucana, Virgil’s Aeneid, and the ‘New’ World Encounter
4. Epic and Tragedy – Virgil, La Cerda, Milton
5. Nicodemus Frischlin’s Dido: Virgil on the German Stage
6. The Neo-Latin Epic
Part 2: Early Books and Manuscripts, Mostly Virgilian
7. The Medium Is the Message: From Manuscript to the Hand Press to the Computer Age
8. Using Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
9. A Humanist Annotator of Virgil: Coluccio Salutati
10. Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800
11. Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Plato, Aristotle, and the Function of Literature
12. Virgil in the Renaissance Classroom: From Toscanella’s Osservationi … sopra l’opere di Virgilio to the Exercitationes rhetoricae
13. Canon, Print, and the Virgilian Corpus
Biography
Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries.
