Editorial: Brill
Colección: Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period
Número de páginas: 188 págs.
Fecha de edición: 13-04-2023
EAN: 9789004547872
ISBN: 978-90-04-54787-2
Precio (sin IVA): 70,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 72,80 €
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, activated their classical bilingual competence to impress patrons; nuance their ideas and feelings; manage information by encoding gossip and private matters in Greek; and adorn books and art with poems in the two languagges, and so on.