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Brings together studies by scholars from a range of academic disciplines to assess the central position of Virgil in the intellectual, artistic, and political l
Virgil in the Renaissance
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Authors: David Scott Wilson-Okamura
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is
Printing Virgil
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Authors: Craig Kallendorf
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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 th
Virgil's Schoolboys
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An examination of the ways in which Virgil's poems were received and employed in the schoolrooms of 16th- and 17th-century England. Andrew Wallace argues that t
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This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil's 'messianic' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.