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Steven M. Oberhelman (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981), is Associate Dean and Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University. The author or editor of eleven books, his latest book is Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020).Giancarlo Abbamonte (Ph.D., University of Salerno, Italy, 1995), teaches Classical Philology at the Federico II University of Naples. His research focuses on classical reception, commentaries and lexicography. He has co-edited Niccolò Perotti's Cornu copiae and Iacopo d'Angelo's Latin translations of Plutarch.Patrick Baker (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2009), teaches History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is the author of Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) and has edited several volumes on historiography, biography, and classical reception.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNote to the ReaderNotes on ContributorsIntroductionSteven M. Oberhelman, Giancarlo Abbamonte, Patrick Baker1 Craig Kallendorf: The Man and His WorkRichard F. ThomasPart 1: Virgil and His Works2 Aeneas in Campania: Notes on Naevius as a Model for the AeneidAlessandro Barchiesi3 Virgil’s Incomplete Lines: A Challenge for TranslatorsSusanna BraundPart 2: Virgilian Studies4 La Poésie de la nature, de Virgile à Giovanni Pontano : l’exemple des pronostics solairesHélène Casanova-Robin5 Virgilio castigato: Stazio, Dante e le correzioni all’EneideEdoardo Fumagalli6 Pontano’s Virgil: Interpretation and Imitation in the AntoniusJulia Haig Gaisser7 Early Latin Virgils in the Colonial Americas (1520–1740)Andrew Laird8 Virgil and Roman Musical TheaterTimothy J. Moore9 Raphael and Marcantonio Raimondi as Readers of VirgilLisa Pon10 The Manuscript and Print Tradition of Pomponius Laetus’s Commentary on the AeneidFabio StokPart 3: Classical Reception Studies11 From Crete to Geneva: Frankiskos Portos (1511–1581) and His Teaching of GreekFederica Ciccolella12 Unveiling the Calumny of Apelles: Caspar Dornavius’s Calumniae repraesentatioMarc LaureysPart 4: Humanists and Humanism13 Étude métrique des Épîtres de Jean SecondJean-Louis Charlet14 The King’s Citizens: Francesco Patrizi of Siena on Citizenship in MonarchiesJames Hankins15 The Letters of Ignatius of Antioch as a Philological and Epistemological Issue from the Reformation to TodayJohn Monfasani16 Boccaccio and Early Italian HumanismMarianne Pade17 Working with Style: On Translating Boccaccio’s DecameronWayne A. Rebhorn18 Giovanni Aurispa e Tommaso Parentucelli: un’amicizia specialeLucia Gualdo Rosa19 Two Nations, Two Foundations: The Renaissance’s ‘Other Rome’Alden Smith20 Encounters with the Latin Past: Subiaco, Colonna, and Poems of LepantoSarah SpencePart 5: The Material Book, Manuscripts, and Printed Editions21 Chasing Commentaries: Kaspar Schoppe, Jacques Bongars, and Pierre Daniel, or the Backstory to the Servius Danielis RevisitedIngrid De Smet22 The Ignorant Reader: Imagining Vernacular Literacies in Seventeenth-Century EnglandMargaret J. M. Ezell23 Ut liber pictura : Rembrandt peintre de livresColette Nativel24 The Book Trade in Venice under Foreign Dominations (1797–1866)Marino ZorziGeneral Index