
Selections from Conrad Celtis
1459-1508
Cambridge University Press
Published on 18. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
142 pages
978-1-107-60182-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume was originally published in 1948. Students of sixteenth-century Germany and its literature, in need of a text and translation of the works of Conrad Celtis, the Humanist, who wrote in Latin, will find it in Mr Forster's selection. Latin literature was in some respects a generation ahead of the vernaculars. It is in Latin that the big changes first become apparent. But in present-day education the tendency away from Latin makes it difficult for students to study this as it ought to be studied. Mr Forster, judging by his lecture-room experience, believes that there is a need and a way to remedy this difficulty. He has selected texts from Celtis to illustrate tendencies in humanist thought, writing a commentary upon each, and adding a literal translation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
189 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-60182-6 (9781107601826)
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Person
Edited and translated
Content
Preface; Description of plates; Introduction; Select bibliography; Part I. Texts and Translations: 1. Ad Apollinem Repertorem Poetices ut ab Italis ad Germanos veniat; 2. Ad Vilhelmum Mommerlochum Civem Coloniensem et Philosophum; 3. Ad Sepulum Disdaemonem; 4. De Nocte et Osculo Hasilinae, erotice; 5. Ad Sigismumdum Fusilium Vratislaviensem: de his quod futurus philosophus scire debeat; 6. Eppigrammata; 7. Oratio in Gymnasio in Ingelstadio publice recitata; Part II. Commentary: 8. Ad Apollinem; 9. Ad Vilhelmum Mommerlochum; 10. Ad Sepulum Disdaemonem; 11. De Nocte et Osculo Hasilinae; 12. Ad Sigismumdum Fusilium Vratislaviensem; 13. Epigrammata; 14. Oratio; Index.