De rationibus quibus homines docti artem Latine colloquendi et ex tempore dicendi saeculis XVI et XVII coluerunt

Study of conversational Latin and ex tempore expression in Latin
The use of Latin for conversation and ex tempore discourse was a significant element in the culture of learned people in the humanist age and the early modern era.

This book explores that phenomenon and the considerable amount of evidence pertaining to it in the primary sources written in the period.

The author takes into account the use of spoken Latin both inside and outside the academic world. Examining disputes over pronunciation and different views about ex tempore eloquence among Latin writers active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the author shows that these 'conversations' are not unrelated to much better known discussions and debates about the nature of Latin prose style and eloquence in an age when Latin was no one's native language. The book thus reveals that understanding the role of conversation and ex tempore expression in Latin helps us to understand the early modern phenomenon of Neo-Latin in general. All texts in this volume are in Latin.

RERUM CONSPECTUS

Praefatiuncula

I. De argumento nostro

II. De linguae Latinae usu scholastico

III. De colloquiis familiaribus

IV. De Ciceronianis

V. De pronuntiatu

VI. De Latine colloquendi usu et utilitate

VII. Paucula quaedam de rebus a saec. XVIII usque ad saec. XX gestis

VIII. Verba quaedam et locutiones, quae ad Latine colloquendi facultatem orationemve extemporalem pertinent

Epilogus. Quid de litterarum Latinarum patrimonio senserint studiorum humanitatis fautores

Conspectus librorum et commentationum

Index nominum selectorum

Format: Monograph - ebook

140 pages

ISBN: 9789461660664

Publication: March 20, 2013

Series: Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 31

Languages: Latin

Terence O. Tunberg is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Kentucky and is co-Director of the University of Kentucky Institute for Latin Studies. He is member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae