Virgilian Tradition II

Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries.

• Introduction Part 1: Renaissance Readings of Virgil 1. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 2. Historicizing the "Harvard School": Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Italian Renaissance Scholarship 3. Representing the Other: Ercilla’s La Araucana, Virgil’s Aeneid, and the ‘New’ World Encounter 4. Epic and Tragedy – Virgil, La Cerda, Milton 5. Nicodemus Frischlin’s Dido: Virgil on the German Stage 6. The Neo-Latin Epic Part 2: Early Books and Manuscripts, Mostly Virgilian 7. The Medium Is the Message: From Manuscript to the Hand Press to the Computer Age 8. Using Manuscripts and Early Printed Books 9. A Humanist Annotator of Virgil: Coluccio Salutati 10. Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 11. Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Plato, Aristotle, and the Function of Literature 12. Virgil in the Renaissance Classroom: From Toscanella’s Osservationi … sopra l’opere di Virgilio to the Exercitationes rhetoricae 13. Canon, Print, and the Virgilian Corpus