The Afterlife of Virgil

P Mack (Editor), John North (Editor)

Series: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements

Published in association with: Institute of Classical Studies

Virgil has always been copied, studied, imitated, and revered as perhaps the greatest poet of the Latin language. He has been centrally important to the transmission of the classical tradition, and has played a unique role in European education. In recognition of the richness of his reception the fourth conferences in the joint Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was devoted to the afterlife of Virgil.

This volume focuses on the reception of the Eclogues and the Aeneid in three main areas: Italian Renaissance poetry, scholarship and visual art; English responses to Virgil’s poetry; and emerging literatures in Eastern Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contributors are Giulia Perucchi, M. Elisabeth Schwab, Clementina Marsico, David Quint, Marilena Caciorgna, Maté Vince, Hanna Paulouskaya, Tim Markey, Charles Martindale, and Francesca Bortoletti.

Notes on Contributors
Peter Mack and John North Introduction
Giulia Perucchi ‘Locorum Quoque Doctissimus’: Virgil as Geographical Auctoritas in Petrarch’s Works
M. Elisabeth Schwab Renaissance Re-buildings of Virgil’s Rome
Clementina Marsico Lorenzo Valla’s Exegesis of Virgil
David Quint Ascanius in Love: A Reconsideration of Poliziano’s Stanze
Marilena Caciorgna Carving Love on Trees and Virgil’s Eclogue 10
Máté Vince Virgil in Ottoman Hungary: The Aeneid and Miklós Zrínyi’s The Siege of Sziget (1651)
Hanna Paulouskaya Virgil Travestied into Ukrainian and Belarusian
Tim Markey The Renaissance Virgil and the Renaissance Library: Spenser’s ‘Maye’, the Eclogues, and the Aeneid
Charles Martindale English Virgil? – from Surrey to Tennyson
Francesca Bortoletti The Myth of Arcadia. Virgil’s Bucolics in Italian Quattrocento Poetry and Theatre Index of Names

Paperback: 9781905670659 / 186 pages / 244mm x 170mm

P Mack (Editor)

John North (Editor)

John North taught Greek and Roman history for forty years in the History Department at
University College London, becoming Professor of History in 1992 and Emeritus Professor
of History in 2003. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies from 2012–14 and
co-editor of the series of ICS reception studies volumes.

Subject: Classical Literature and Drama, Classical Studies

BISAC codes: ART015080, FOR033000

Thema codes: AGA, NHC

Keywords: Hungary, Virgil, latin, poetry, reception, renaissance