Publication

2020 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

48,250 words, Guess

Page Count

193 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004421349
  • ISBN-109004421343
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019048133
  • OCLC Control Number1122916371
  • Better World Books9789004421349
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPA6825.K356 2020
  • LCCPA6825 .K356 2020

Description

"In this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance. Using a new methodology developed at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Printing Virgil shows that the press established which commentaries were disseminated, provided signals for how the Virgilian translations were to be interpreted, shaped the discussion about the authenticity of the minor poems attributed to Virgil, and inserted this material into larger censorship concerns. The editions that were printed during this period transformed Virgil into a poet who could fit into Renaissance culture, but they also determined which aspects of his work could become visible at that time"--

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