Transformations of the classics via early modern commentaries / / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel.

• Superior document: Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, volume 29
• TeilnehmendeR: Enenkel, K. A. E.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (439 p.)
• Notes: "The idea for this volume originated in the 15th International Conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), Neo-Latin, Language of Religion and Politics, held at the Westfalische Wilhelmsuniversitat Munster in August of 2012"--Acknowledgments.

Commentaries played an important role in the transmission of the classical heritage. Early modern intellectuals rarely read classical authors in a simple and “direct” form, but generally via intermediary paratexts, especially all kinds of commentaries. Commentaries presented the classical texts in c...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction – The Transformation of the Classics. Practices, Forms, and Functions of Early Modern Commenting / Karl A.E. Enenkel
• Horace and Ramist Dialectics: Pierre Gaultier Chabot’s (1516–1598?) Commentaries / Floris B. Verhaart
• Changing Metatexts and Changing Poetic Ideals / Trine Arlund Hass
• Horaz als Schulfibel und als elitärer Gründungstext des deutschen Humanismus. Die illustrierte Horazausgabe des Jakob Locher (1498) / Christoph Pieper
• Petrus Nannius als Philologe und Literaturkritiker im Lichte seines Kommentars zur Ars Poetica des Horaz / Marc Laureys
• Scholarly Polemic: Bartolomeo Fonzio’s Forgotten Commentary on Juvenal / Gergő Gellérfi
• Commenting on Claudian’s ‘Political Poems’, 1612/1650 / Valéry Berlincourt
• Josse Bade’s Familiaris Commentarius on Valerius Maximus (1510): A School Commentary? / Marijke Crab
• Illustrations as Commentary and Readers’ Guidance. The Transformation of Cicero’s De Officiis into a German Emblem Book by Johann von Schwarzenberg, Heinrich Steiner, and Christian Egenolff (1517–1520; 1530/1531; 1550) / Karl A.E. Enenkel
• Understanding National Antiquity. Transformations of Tacitus’s Germania in Beatus Rhenanus’s Commentariolus / Ronny Kaiser
• Annotating Tacitus: The Case of Justus Lipsius / Jeanine De Landtsheer
• The Survival of Pliny in Padua. Transforming Classical Scholarship during the Botanical Renaissance / Susanna de Beer
• Elephants and Bears through the Eyes of Scholars: A Case Study of Pliny’s Zoology in the 15th–16th Centuries / Ekaterina Ilyushechkina
• Frühneuzeitliche Landesbeschreibung in einer antiken Geographie – Der Rhein aus persönlicher Perspektive in Vadians Kommentar zu Pomponius Mela (1522) / Katharina Suter-Meyer
• Index Nominum.