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edited by F. Akkerman (University of Groningen)
Co-published by MRTS and Van Gorcum & Comp.
Forthcoming / 86698-232-9; 90-232-3373-5 / MR190 /
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Archibald Pitcairne: The Latin Poems
Edited and translated by John & Winifred MacQueen
The Latin verse of the Scottish physician and surgeon Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713) was once well-known
for its quality and for its support of the exiled British royal family of Stuart. Almost paradoxically,
it also reflects the new world of Newtonian science. All his poetry is occasional, with a distinctive,
often sardonic, turn of phrase. Selections were published in the eighteenth century,
one afterwards included as an appendix to his collected medical writings. This is the first complete,
critical edition and includes some recent discoveries. The editors have used all surviving texts, MS and printed.
Co-published by MRTS and Van Gorcum & Comp. (ordering information)
2009 / 484 + xvi pages / 978-0-86698-407-2 / MR359 / $89
Hermann Conring's
New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor
Edited and Translated by Constantin Fasolt (The University of Chicago)
The New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor is the first work in which Hermann Conring's (1606-1681)
ideas about the independence of Germany from the Roman Empire became available to a wider audience. This English
translation--the first of any of Conring's works--includes the Latin original, an introduction to Conring's significance,
a chronology, notes on the edition and the translation, and an annotated guide to further reading. It will introduce
students of early modern history to the controversies surrounding the transition from medieval forms of universal
governance to the modern world of sovereign nation states.
2005/ 122 pages / 86698-325-2 / MR 282 / $32, £24
John Barclay: Argenis
Edited and translated by Mark Riley & Dorothy Pritchard
Huber
John Barclay's Argenis, the greatest and most popular of all Renaissance
Latin novels, is an ingenious, deftly plotted tour de force, combining
tragedy, romance, intrigue, and exotic adventure with lively, veiled
descriptions of the social and political world of 17th century Europe.
Prefaced by an extensive introduction and supplemented by numerous magnificent
illustrations, this definitive modern edition presents Barclay's final
Latin version, plus a modernised version of Kingsmill Long's widely
read English translation of 1625.
Co-published by MRTS and Van Gorcum & Comp. (ordering information)
2003 / 2 volumes, 424 & 552 pages / 86698-316-3 / MR273 / $60
Travel Abroad: Frulovisi's Peregrinatio
Translated and with an Introduction by Grady Smith
(George Mason University)
Travel Abroad provides the first English version of Peregrinatio
(1437), Titus Livius Frulovisi's sixth play and the first Neo-Latin
comedy written in England. In addition, the translation's substantial
introduction furnishes the cultural setting, biographical details, and
critical frame of reference needed to place author and comedy within
the early years of the humanist movement. In particular, the introduction
details the influence of Plautus and Terence on Travel Abroad,
while the critical apparatus in the translation itself cites more than
a hundred specific dialogue parallels to Roman works. In addition, aspects
of story, staging, and even costume have roots in the earlier comedies.
Moreover, in a striking and innovative move, Frulovisi takes several
of the stock women's characters and, departing from his classical models,
enlarges them into roles of substance. Both the young girl in love and
her maid, a type of clever slave, loom large in the story, and the mother
of the young man is central to two of the play's scenes. Furthermore,
Frulovisi deliberately violates the unities in his play, and contends
in its prologue that doing so demonstrates "the inventiveness of the
author."
2003 / 176 pages / 86698-294-9 / MR237 / $30, £26
Rudolf Agricola, Letters
Edited and translated with notes by F. Akkerman (University of Groningen)
and Adrie Van der Laan
The letters by and to Rudolph Agricola have survived in a variety of manuscript and printed sources.
The present volume constitutes the first complete critical edition of all the letters. It also maps
out the classical and early modern erudition of Agricola and his correspondents and elucidates
their historical backgrounds of the letters.
Co-published by MRTS and Van Gorcum & Comp. (ordering information)
2003 / 440 pages / 86698-258-2 / MR216 / $38
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View from the Palatine: The Iuvenilia of Théodore de Bèze
translated by Kirk M. Summers (University of Alabama)
An edition of the poetry of Théodore de Bèze (or Beza)
is long overdue. This volume provides a critical text, translation,
and commentary of Beza's Poemata (1548), containing poems grouped
as sylvae, elegies, epitaphs, icons, and epigrams, as well as the prefatory
letter to Melchior Wolmar. Summers's translations of these difficult
texts are accurate and fluid, the commentary offers discussion on classical
and contemporary sources, and the list of variants and other scholarly
apparatus are rigorously detailed. Sure to become the standard edition.
2001 / 504 pages / 86698-279-5 / MR237 / $40, £36
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Giovanni
della Casa's Poem Book (Ioannis Casae Carminum Liber), Florence 1564
edited and translated with an introductory essay and
commentary by John B. Van Sickle
"Van Sickle has enriched the scholarship on Giovanni della Casa with
a learned analysis . . . After a brief and well-written introduction,
valuable especially in his analysis of Giovanni's last years, he provides
the Latin and English versions of the poems with commentaries including
entries on the genre, meter, literary linkage, synopsis, comment, and
notes." -- Sixteenth Century Journal
1999 / 194 pages / 86698-236-1 / MR194 / $20, £18
Feel free to visit the author's web site at
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/jvsickle
J.
Milton, Latin Writings (selection)
edited by J. K.
Hale
"Hale has done Milton and those interested in his work an important
service. The volume is an invitation to learn about a significant and
large portion of Milton's œuvre. ... ideal for class use."
— Neo-Latin News
Co-published by MRTS and Van Gorcum & Comp. (ordering information)
1999 / 260 pages / 86698-233-7, 90-232-3374-3 / MR191 / $26, Dgl.
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