Poeticarum institutionum libri tres = Institutes of poetics in three parts / / edition, translation and commentary by Jan Bloemendal ; in collaboration with Edwin Rabbie.

• Superior document: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, v. 41
• Author: Vossius, Gerardus Joannes, 1577-1649.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bloemendal, Jan, 1961-; Rabbie, Edwin, 1957-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (2215 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Poeticarum institutionum libri tres.; Front Matter (vol 1) /; Introductory Essay /; References /; Text and Translation. Liber primus /; Text and Translation. Liber secundus /; Text and Translation. Liber tertius /; Commentary /; Index 1647 /; Appendix 1. De artis poeticae natura ac constitutione /; Appendix 2. De imitatione /; Appendix 1. Indices 1647 /; Indices /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 128385192X; 9004184090
• ISSN: 0076-9754
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edition, translation and commentary by Jan Bloemendal ; in collaboration with Edwin Rabbie.

This is a new critical edition (in two volumes) of Vossius' Latin Poeticae institutiones , with a translation in English, an introduction, annotations and a commentary. In 1647 the Amsterdam professor Gerardus Vossius published his main work on poetics, Poeticarum institutionum libri III , which can be considered as an important result of the Dutch Golden Age. In the same year two shorter works appeared, De artis poeticae natura ac constitutione , which is an introduction to the main work, and De imitatione , which elaborates on two aspects of poetics: imitation and recitation. These are added in appendices, also with a translation, but without a commentary. Now this important early modern work on the making of poetry (labeled by Sellin as 'The last of the Renaissance monsters') is made available also for readers without Latin.