Baroque Latinity
Subtitle: Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque
By: edited by Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald and Andrew Taylor
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2023
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781350323469
Subjects: Baroque literature; Medieval and modern Latin literature; Latin c 1600 to c 1700; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
Description: This volume addresses the idea of the Baroque in European literature in Latin. With contributions by scholars from various disciplines and countries, and by looking at a range of texts from across Europe, the volume offers case studies to deepen scholarly understanding of this important literary phenomenon and inspire future research.    A key aim of the volume is to address the distinctiveness of these texts by interrogating the usefulness and specificity of the term 'Baroque', especially in relation to the classical rules it transgresses to produce effects of grandeur, richness, and exuberance in a range of secular and sacred arts (e.g. music, architecture, painting), as well as various forms of literature (e.g. prose, poetry, drama). The contributors consider how and why Latin writing mutated from earlier humanist paradigms, thus exploring how ideas of 'early modern' and 'Baroque' are related, and examine the interplay of the theory and practice of the 'Baroque', including its debts to and deviations from ancient models, and its limits and limitations.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors Preface  1     Introduction (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK and Andrew Taylor, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK) 2     The sixteenth century's revolution in rhetoric and its impact on the Baroque (Lucy R. Nicholas, Warburg Institute, UK) 3     The Greekness of Neo-Latin wit: Hermogenes and ingenuity in Julius Caesar Scaliger's Poetices libri septem (Javiera Lorenzini Raty, KCL, UK) 4     The triumph of the saint: St Casimir Jagiellon and the militant motifs in Baroque hagiographical poetry (Patryk Ryczkowski, Universität Innsbruck, Austria) 5     Innovation and fusion: Sarbiewski's theory of Baroque literary style (Tomas Riklius, Vilnius University, Lithuania) 6     Christ's blood or Mary's milk? 'Clarus Bonarscius', Baroque piety and English Protestant outrage (Alison Shell, UCL, UK) 7     An example of Baroque Latinity through the inclusion of ancient literary models into modern thought: Claude-Barthélemy Morisot's Peruviana (1644) (Valérie Boutrois-Wampfler, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France) 8     Maffeo Barberini's poems for the Farnese family in early Baroque Rome (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 9     Mannerisms in Latin Baroque poetry by Paul Fleming (1609-40) and Georg Gloger (1603-31) (Beate Hintzen, Universität Bonn, Germany) 10   What makes a Neo-Latin tragedy Baroque? (Jan Bloemendal, Royal Netherlands Academy/Huygens Institute, Netherlands and James Parente, University of Minnesota, USA) 11   Asses at the lyre: Latin as musical language and the benefits of exclusion (Eric Bianchi, Fordham University, USA) 12   Latin motet texts in seventeenth-century Rome and the Exercitia spiritualia of St Ignatius of Loyola (Adrian Horsewood, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK)  Index