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.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter (vol 1) / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Introductory Essay / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- References / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Text and Translation. Liber primus / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Text and Translation. Liber secundus / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Text and Translation. Liber tertius / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Commentary / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Index 1647 / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Appendix 1. De artis poeticae natura ac constitutione / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Appendix 2. De imitatione / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Appendix 1. Indices 1647 / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie -- Indices / Jan Bloemendal and Edwin Rabbie.