William Barton is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series.Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, UK, Senior Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series.Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She is a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series.Bobby Xinyue is Lecturer in Roman Culture at King's College London, UK, and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series.

• List of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK)1. Poems of Printed Books: The Case of Niccolo Perotti's (1430-1480) Cornu Copiae, Marianne Pade (Aarhus University, Denmark)2. The Natalis of Paolo Marsi (1440-1484), Raphael Schwitter (University of Bonn, Germany)3. The Verses of Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522) on the Philologist's Work of the Philologist and the Place of Greek, William M. Barton (University of Innsbruck, Austria)4. Aldus Manutius (c. 1450-1515), Musarum Panagyris and Other Early Poems, Oren Margolis (University of East Anglia, UK)5. An Elegiac Poem by Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558) on Sickness and Healing, Bobby Xinyue (King's College London, UK)6. Two Poems by Pietro Vettori (1499–1585), Agnese D'Angelo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)7. Jean Dorat (1508-1588): The Latin Lyrics of a Greek Professor, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK)8. Janus Dousa (1545-1604): The Satires of a Dutch Scholar, David Andrew Porter (Hunan Normal University, China)9. Editing Cicero (and Translating Aratus) in 16th Century Europe: Jan Kochanowski (1579) and Hugo Grotius (1600), Daniele Pellacani (University of Bologna, Italy)10. John Barclay (1582-1621): The Argenis as a Station Scholar's Novel, Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)11. Spare Muses: Epigrams by the Cambridge Don James Duport (1606-1678), Thomas Matthew Vozar (University of Hamburg, Germany)12. Writing a Woman Scholar: Poems Around Birgitte Thott (1610-1662), Trine Arlund Hass (University of Oxford, UK)13. The Plinian Dolphin: Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761), Carmina, Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK)14. Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), Reditus Augusti, an Horatian Mime, Francesco Citti (University of Bologna, Italy)NotesBibliographyIndex

The collection is varied, with some excellent poems that give us a look at how some of our long-ago colleagues spent their leisure time. The translations are clear and accurate and the notes fill in the background a reader might need ... The bibliographies to each chapter are full and helpful. The book could be a gentle introduction to Renaissance scholarship or to Neo-Latin poetry. For a reader who is already acquainted with one or both of those areas, it is simply a fun read.