Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK. His research interests are in Augustan poetry, the ancient novel, especially Apuleius, classical reception (especially for the 19th and 20th centuries in the UK). Among many books and articles he is author of The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento (Bloomsbury, 2024) and co-editor of An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars (Bloomsbury, 2024). Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (2012) with L.B.T. Houghton as well as several other anthologies in this series.

• 1. Introduction. Stephen Harrison (Oxford, UK) and Gesine Manuwald (London, UK)2. Alex Tadel (Warwick, UK), Poems by Angela Nogarola (1375-1346) 3. Florence Forte (Warburg, UK), Battista Malatesta (1383-1448): Oration to Pope Martin V4. Adrien Faure (Paris, France), Poems by Costanza da Varano (1428-1447)5. Lena Vosding (Oxford, UK), The Lüne letter books (1450-1550)6. Floris Verhaart (Warwick, UK), Margarete Welser (1481-1552): Ad Christophorum Fratrem Epistola (1511) 7. Hélène Casanova-Robin (Paris IV, France): A Sapphic ode by Veronica Gambara (1485-1550)8. Ian Fielding and Fernando Gorab Leme (Michigan, USA), The Sintra of Luisa Sigea (1522-60)9. Paméla Mauffrais (Paris IV, France), Three poems by Camille de Morel (1547-1611) 10. Hanne Berendse (Innsbruck, Austria), Johanna Otho (1549-1621): On the decus intactae virginitatis and the Virginity of the Mind 11. Renaat Meesters (Ghent, Belgium), Poems by Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda (1595-1644/1645)12. Marie de La Roche Saint-André (Lille, France), La Musa Posthuma de la Vallicella : Poems by Martha Marchina (1600-1646)13. Caroline Spearing (Exeter, UK), Poems by Bathsua Makin (1600-after 1681)14. Luke Houghton (London, UK), Rachel Jevon (1627-after 1662)15. Gary Vos (Edinburgh, UK), Work by Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)16. Trine Arland Hass (Aarhus, Denmark), Anne Margrethe Bredal (1655-1729) on her education17. Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht, the Netherlands), Odes and Epigrams by Elizabeth Hoofman-Koolaart (1664-1736) to her Husband 18. Christopher Simon (Chicago, USA), Pastoral inter Arcades: The Elegy and Epigrams of Caterina Imperiale Pallavicina (fl. 1721)19. Katie Mennis (Cambridge, UK), Poems from the Tower: Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754)20. Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck, Austria), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Oratio and Propositiones philosophicaeNotesBibliographyIndex

This wonderful volume serves not only scholars focused on early modern women’s Neo-Latin writing but also anyone wanting to learn more about the classical tradition, whether from the standpoint of Classics or from one of the many fields sheltering under the broad umbrella of Renaissance Studies.