Alejandro Coroleu is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has written extensively on Neo-Latin literature, including the book Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (2014), co-authored the volume The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500 (2018) and published Catalan and Spanish translations of Lorenzo Valla and Leon Battista Alberti.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceList of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Praise and Blame: Legitimising the New Kings’ Old Dynasties2. ‘Bellonae et Martis genitus’: mapping the Spanish conflict in Latin verse and prose (1701–1712)3. Latin Writing between Court, Church and Academia during the War of the Spanish Succession4. Latin Propaganda Beyond the Dynastic Conflict (1715-1740)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Whatever the purpose of the texts, one thing is clear: they needed to be collected and analysed, making a double contribution to historiography and Neo-Latin studies. Coroleu's book does this task so well that it is both the first to deal with it and the one that definitively culminates it.

Alejandro Coroleu is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has written extensively on Neo-Latin literature, including the book Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (2014), co-authored the volume The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500 (2018) and published Catalan and Spanish translations of Lorenzo Valla and Leon Battista Alberti.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceList of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Praise and Blame: Legitimising the New Kings’ Old Dynasties2. ‘Bellonae et Martis genitus’: mapping the Spanish conflict in Latin verse and prose (1701–1712)3. Latin Writing between Court, Church and Academia during the War of the Spanish Succession4. Latin Propaganda Beyond the Dynastic Conflict (1715-1740)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Whatever the purpose of the texts, one thing is clear: they needed to be collected and analysed, making a double contribution to historiography and Neo-Latin studies. Coroleu's book does this task so well that it is both the first to deal with it and the one that definitively culminates it.

Alejandro Coroleu is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has written extensively on Neo-Latin literature, including the book Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (2014), co-authored the volume The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500 (2018) and published Catalan and Spanish translations of Lorenzo Valla and Leon Battista Alberti.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceList of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Praise and Blame: Legitimising the New Kings’ Old Dynasties2. ‘Bellonae et Martis genitus’: mapping the Spanish conflict in Latin verse and prose (1701–1712)3. Latin Writing between Court, Church and Academia during the War of the Spanish Succession4. Latin Propaganda Beyond the Dynastic Conflict (1715-1740)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Whatever the purpose of the texts, one thing is clear: they needed to be collected and analysed, making a double contribution to historiography and Neo-Latin studies. Coroleu's book does this task so well that it is both the first to deal with it and the one that definitively culminates it.