C. Caruso, A. Laird (dir.), Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600

Carlo Caruso, Andrew Laird (dir.), Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600,  London:  Duckworth, 2009.  Pp. x, 269.  

• ISBN 9780715637371. 
• £50.00.  
  

Recension par Ioannis Deligiannis (Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens, Greece) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.01.56.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Italy'soriginal fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome firstcreated what is now known as 'the Classical tradition' - the pervasiveinfluence of ancient art and thought on later times. In response to agrowing interest in Classical reception, this volume provides a timelyreappraisal of the Greek and Roman legacies in Italian literaryhistory. There are fresh insights on the early study of Greek and Latintexts in post-classical Italy and reassessments of the significanceattached to ancient authors and ideas in the Renaissance, as well assome innovative interpretations of canonical Italian authors, includingDante, Petrarch and Alberti, in the light of their ancient influencesand models. The wide range of essays in this volume - all by leadingspecialists - should appeal to anyone with an interest in Italianliterature or the Classical tradition.

Contributors: Giulio Lepschy(University College London); Philip Burton (University of Birmingham);Nigel Wilson (Lincoln College, Oxford); Martin McLaughlin (MagdalenCollege, Oxford); Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway, University ofLondon); Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute, London); Claudia Villa(University of Bergamo); Jonathan Usher (University of Edinburgh);Stefano Carrai (University of Siena); George Hugo Tucker (University ofReading).

Table des matières:

Preface and Acknowledgments (pp. vii-viii)

List of Contributors (pp. ix-x)

Carlo Caruso & Andrew Laird, Introduction: The Italian Classical Tradition, Language and Literary History (pp. 1-25)

Part I. Latin, Greek and Italian

Giulio Lepschy, The Classical Languages and Italian: Some Questions of Grammar and Rhetoric (pp. 29-40)

Philip Burton, 'Itali dicunt ozie': Describing Non-Standard and Low-Register Speech in Latin (pp. 41-61)

Nigel Wilson, 'Utriusque linguae peritus': How Did One Learn Greek and Acquire the Texts? (pp. 62-70)

Part II. Hellenism and the Latin Humanists

Martin McLaughlin, Alberti and the Classical Canon (pp. 73-100)

Letizia Panizza, Plutarch's Camma: A Greek Literary Heroine's Adventures in Renaissance Italy (pp. 101-117)

Jill Kraye, Italy, France and the Classical Tradition: The Origins of the Philological Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (pp. 118-140)

Part III. The Classical Tradition in Poetry

Claudia Villa, 'Unicuique suum': Observations on Dante as a Reader of Classical Authors (pp. 143-160)

Jonathan Usher, Petrarch's Diploma of Crowning: The Privilegium laureationis (pp. 161-192)

Stefano Carrai, Putting Italian Renaissance Lyric in Order: Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Latin Liber carminum (pp. 193-203)

George Hugo Tucker, A Roman Dialogue with Virgil and Homer: Capilupi, the Cento and Rome (pp. 204-238)

Subject Bibliography: Further Reading on Italy and the Classical Tradition (pp. 239-245)

Index of Manuscripts and Printed Copies (p. 247)

Index of Principal Passages Cited (pp. 248-252)

General Index (pp. 253-269)