Humanistica Lovaniensia, Volume LVI – 2007

Humanistica Lovaniensia publishes articles on Neo-Latin in English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish, and critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and notes. Furthermore, it contains the annual systematically ordered bibliography of Neo-Latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms). Volume 1 through 16 were edited by the late Mgr. Henry de Vocht from 1928 to 1961 as a series of monographs on the history of humanism at Louvain, especially in the Collegium Trilingue. Beginning with volume 17 (1968) Humanistica Lovaniensia appears annually as a Journal of Neo-Latin Studies.

First Annual Jozef Ijsewijn Lecture

Chris L. Heesakkers
Neo-Latin Academic Funeral Oratory and Poetry in the Low Countries

1. TEXTUS ET STUDIA

Joachim Jacoby
Inghirami über Bündnispolitik

Paul Thoen & Gilbert Tournoy
Lucretia Lovaniensis.The Louvain Humanists and the Motif of Lucretia’s suicide

Thomas Gärtner
Untersuchungen zur Rezeption des Caesar-und-Pompeius-Stoffs in der lateinischen Renaissancetragödie

Heinz Hofmann
The Shield of Aeneas in the Hands of Columbus. the Reception of Vergil’s Description of Aeneas’ Shield in Some Neo-Latin Poems on columbus and the Discovery of the New World

José María Maestre Maestre
El Brocense contra el Inglés Henry Jason: una nueva interpretacíon de la paradoja Latina loqui corrumpit ipsam Latinitatem y de sus posteriores cambios textuales

Veronika Coroleu Oberparleiter
Nicolaus Vernalaeus’ Darstellung der Habsburger:Apologia, Virtutes und Historia Austriaca , mit einem Exkurs über die Methodus legendi historias

Mauro Agosto
D; Cirillo, Entomologiae Neapolitanae specimen primum, Praefatio: analisi della struttura argomentativa

Giles Barber
Latin and Greek Versions & Tributes by Aric Arthur Barber (1888-1965) Rector of Exeter college, Oxford

2. INSTRUMENTUM CRITICUM

Vladimirus Olszaniec
Ad Francisci Petrarcae Itinerarium in sepulchrum Christi observatiuncula critica

Dirk Sacré
Poliziano’s letter to Timoteo and Luigi Balbani from the Collection of Autographs in Mariemont, Belgium: Three Textual Notes

Dirk Sacré
An Unknown Edition of Two Latin Poems of Maffeo Barberini (Urban VIII)

Florentina Nicolae
Foreign Names in dimitrie Cantemirs’s Historical Works

Toon Van Hal
Towards Meta-Neo-Latin Studies? Impetus to Debate on the Field of Neo-Latin Studies and its Methodology

3. INSTRUMENTUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM NEOLATINUM

4. INSTRUMENTUM LEXICOGRAPHICUM

5. NUNTIUS

56. INDICES