Hyperboreo sono: An Exploration of Erudition in Early Modern Germanic Philology
Journal: Erudition and the Republic of Letters
Year: 2018

This essay aims to contribute to the reflection on practices for studying early modern erudition. Arguing that poetic thinking and sensitive engagement were intrinsic to the erudition of the learned Commonwealth, it explores how to read Septentrional philology as a lively practice impacted by the generative force of visualization. ‘Hyperborean’ sounds in an epigram by Joseph Justus Scaliger show erudite play in performance when considered conjointly with the ‘Getic’ poetry of Ovid, and rhyme in