Title: Bonaventura Vulcanius, Brugge 1588-Leiden 1614
Description: "The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts. Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated many a rare text, composed dictionaries, sent laudatory poems, and compiled the first chapters of a history of Germanic languages. This volume gathers recent research on this versatile philologist, and includes the first edition of many unpublished works and documents."--
Subjects: Poets, Intellectual life, Philology, Humanists, Philologists, Renaissance, Scholars, Biography, History, Poets, biography, Europe, intellectual life, Bruges (belgium), Belgium, biography, Filologi, Historia, Humanister (renässansen), Biografi
Places: Belgium, Europe, Bruges (Belgium), Leiden (Netherlands)
People: Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614)
Time periods: 16th century