The Neo-Latin epigram
Subtitle: a learned and witty genre
By: edited by Susanna de Beer, Karl A.E. Enenkel & David Rijser
Series: Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia -- 25; Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia -- 25.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9789058677457
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held at Rome in April 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English, with one Italian contribution.
Table of contents: title: The Neo-Latin epigram :; title: humanist self-definition in a learned and witty discourse  -- Karl A.E. Enenkel; title: Versus ex variis locis deducti :; title: On ancient collections of epigrams  -- Stephan Busch; title: Janus Lascaris and the Greek anthology  -- Marc D. Lauxtermann; title: The epigram in early modern literary theory :; title: Vossius's Poeticae institutiones  -- Jan Bloemendal; title: The comic and the obscene in the Latin epigrams of the early fifteenth century  -- Donatella Coppini; title: The practical function of High Renaissance epigram :; title: the case of Raphael's grave  -- David Rijser; title: The pointierung of Giannantonio Campano's epigrams :; title: theory and practice  -- Susanna de Beer; title: Genre negotiations :; title: Cristoforo Landino's Xandra between elegy and epigram  -- Christoph Pieper; title: Marullo's imitations of Catullus in the context of his poetical criticism  -- Han Lamers; title: Epigramma cultum and the Anthologia palatina :; title: case studies from Michael Marullus' epigrammata  -- Maarten Jansen; title: Incisività sublime :; title: l'art epigrammatica di Aurelio Orsi nel giudizio di Giambattista Marino  -- Tobias Leuker; title: Epigrams teaching humanist lessons :; title: the pointed poems and poetics of the Latin school teacher Joannes Murmellius (c. 1480-1517)  -- Juliette A. Groenland; title: The microcosmos of the Baroque epigram :; title: John Owen and Julien Waudré  -- Johannes Jansen; title: Hugo Grotius and the epigram  -- Moniek van Oosterhout; title: Angelo Colocci's collections of epigrams -- Ingrid D. Rowland.