Printing Virgil : : the transformation of the classics in the Renaissance / / Craig Kallendorf.

• Superior document: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts; volume 23
• VerfasserIn: Kallendorf, Craig,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts; volume 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 pages).

"In this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance. Using a new methodology developed at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Printing Virgil shows that the press established which commentaries were disseminated, provided signals for how the Virgilian translations were to be interpreted, shaped the discussion about the authenticity of the minor poems attributed to Virgil, and inserted this material into larger censorship concerns. The editions that were printed during this period transformed Virgil into a poet who could fit into Renaissance culture, but they also determined which aspects of his work could become visible at that time".

Table of Contents

Introduction. Data ; Method ; Application -- Commentary. Introduction ; Definition ; Survey ; Function ; Conclusion -- Translation. Introduction ; Italy ; France ; Translations into other languages ; Conclusion -- Canonization. Introduction ; The Opuscula and its authorship ; The Opuscula rhetoricized ; Conclusion -- Appendix: the Opuscula in Renaissance Editions of Virgil printed in Venice -- Censorship. Introduction ; Taxonomy ; Conclusion -- Conclusion. Virgil transformed ; Final thoughts.