Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries

Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden (Netherlands). He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern organisation of knowledge, literary genres 1300-1600, and emblem studies.

• Acknowledgements ......................................................................................... viiNotes on the Editor ......................................................................................... ixNotes on the Contributors ............................................................................ xiList of Illustrations ........................................................................................... xvIntroduction – The Transformation of the Classics. Practices,Forms, and Functions of Early Modern Commenting .................... 1. Karl A.E. EnenkelPOETRYHorace and Ramist Dialectics: Pierre Gaultier Chabot’s(1516–1598?) Commentaries ..................................................................... 15. Floris B. VerhaartChanging Metatexts and Changing Poetic Ideals .................................. 47. Trine Arlund HassHoraz als Schulfibel und als elitärer Gründungstext des deutschenHumanismus. Die illustrierte Horazausgabe des Jakob Locher(1498) .............................................................................................................. 61. Christoph PieperPetrus Nannius als Philologe und Literaturkritiker im Lichte seinesKommentars zur Ars Poetica des Horaz .............................................. 91. Marc LaureysScholarly Polemic: Bartolomeo Fonzio’s Forgotten Commentaryon Juvenal ..................................................................................................... 111. Gergő GellérfiCommenting on Claudian’s ‘Political Poems’, 1612/1650 ...................... 125. ValÉry BerlincourtHISTORY AND MORAL PHILOSOPHYJosse Bade’s Familiaris Commentarius on Valerius Maximus (1510):A School Commentary? ............................................................................ 153. Marijke CrabIllustrations as Commentary and Readers’ Guidance.The Transformation of Cicero’s De Officiis into a GermanEmblem Book by Johann von Schwarzenberg, Heinrich Steiner,and Christian Egenolff (1517–1520; 1530/1531; 1550) ........................... 167. Karl A.E. EnenkelUnderstanding National Antiquity. Transformations of Tacitus’sGermania in Beatus Rhenanus’s Commentariolus ............................ 261. Ronny KaiserAnnotating Tacitus: The Case of Justus Lipsius ..................................... 279. Jeanine De LandtsheerNATURAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHYThe Survival of Pliny in Padua. Transforming Classical Scholarshipduring the Botanical Renaissance ......................................................... 329. Susanna de BeerElephants and Bears through the Eyes of Scholars: A Case Studyof Pliny’s Zoology in the 15th–16th Centuries .................................... 363. Ekaterina IlyushechkinaFrühneuzeitliche Landesbeschreibung in einer antikenGeographie – Der Rhein aus persönlicher Perspektive inVadians Kommentar zu Pomponius Mela (1522) .............................. 389. Katharina Suter-MeyerIndex Nominum ............................................................................................... 411

“The real tour de force in the volume is the ninety-four-page essay of its editor, Karl Enenkel, who also wrote the grant to the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research that supported five of the authors ... Enenkel argues (quite convincingly) that illustrations to early modern printed editions can also serve as a kind of commentary … We owe thanks to him for the vision and hard work that has produced what is considerably more on the scholarly level than just another set of conference papers, and to Brill for producing a well-printed volume that is enriched with dozens of illustrations (over forty in Enenkel’s article alone).”Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2014), pp. 1303-1305.“enormously helpful … beautifully presented, well-made … an excellent collection of thoughtful and stimulating essays.”Jon Balserak, University of Bristol. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2015), pp. 430-431.