Neo-Latin and the vernaculars
Subtitle: bilingual interactions in the early modern period
By: edited by Alexander Winkler, Florian Schaffenrath
Series: Medieval and renaissance authors and texts -- Volume 20; Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts -- v. 20.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789004384866
Subjects: Latin language; Influence on foreign languages; Foreign elements; Languages in contact; Case studies; Bilingualism; Code switching (Linguistics); Humanists; Medieval and modern Latin language; Medieval and modern Latin literature; Renaissance
Description: The early modern world was profoundly bilingual: alongside the emerging vernaculars, Latin continued to be pervasively used well into the 18th century. Authors were often active in and conversant with both vernacular and Latin discourses. The language they chose for their writings depended on various factors, be they social, sociolinguist, cultural, or merely aesthetic, and had an impact on how and by whom these texts were received. Due to the increasing interest in Neo-Latin studies, early modern bilingualism has recently been attracting attention. This volumes provides a series of case studies focusing on key aspects of early modern bilingualism, such as language choice, translations/rewritings, and the interferences between vernacular and Neo-Latin discourses.0Contributors are Giacomo Comiati, Ronny Kaiser, Teodoro Katinis, Francesco Lucioli, Giuseppe Marcellino, Marianne Pade, Maxim Rigaud, Florian Schaffenrath, Claudia Schindler, Federica Signoriello, Thomas Velle, Alexander Winkler.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Alexander Winkler and Florian Schaffenrath; title: 2. Latin and the Vernacular in Biondo Flavio's Thought and Works: a Study with a New Critical Edition of the Correspondence with the Duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza / Giuseppe Marcellino; title: 3. Latin and Vernacular Interplay: Lazzaro Bonamico as Author and Character of Sperone Speroni's Dialogo delle lingue / Teodoro Katinis; title: 4. Diserte Germanice loqui: the Cultural-Historical Status of the German Language in Franciscus Irenicus's Germaniae Exegesis (1518) / Ronny Kaiser; title: 5. Ludvig Holberg's Niels Klim (1741) and the Irony of Reading and Writing in Latin / Thomas Velle; title: 6. Neo-Latin and Vernacular Translation Theory in the 15th and 16th Centuries: The 'Tasks of the Translator' According to Leonardo Bruni and Étienne Dolet / Marianne Pade; title: 7. Ariosto Latine Redditus: Early Modern Neo-Latin Rewritings of the Orlando Furioso / Francesco Lucioli; title: 8. Rewriting Vernacular Prose in Neo-Latin Hexameters: Francisco de Pedrosa's Austriaca sive Naumachia (1580) / Maxim Rigaux; title: 9. Neo-Latin Epic Poetry on Telemach after Fénelon / Florian Schaffenrath; title: 10. Coexistence and Contamination of Vernacular and Latin in Alessandro Braccesi's Bilingual Tribute to Camilla Saracini: the Literatures of Siena and Florence between Illustrious Women and Neoplatonism / Federica Signoriello; title: 11. The Reception of Petrarch and Petrarchists' Poetry in Marcantonio Flaminio's Carmina / Giacomo Comiati; title: 12. Pietro Angeli da Barga's Syrias (1582-91) and Contemporary Debates over Epic Poetry / Alexander Winkler; title: 13. Didactic Poetry as Elitist Poetry: Christopher Stay's De poesi didascalica dialogus in the Context of Classical and Neo-Latin Didactic Discourse / Claudia Schindler; title: Index.