IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1222: Ancient Presences, II: Latin Literature in Spain and Italy
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Organiser: | Andrew Laird, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick |
Moderator/Chair: | Andrew Laird, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick |
Paper 1222-a | Ovid and the Libro de Buen Amor (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Paper 1222-b | Rewriting Virgil: Maffeo Vegio and the Classics (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
Paper 1222-c | Battista Mantovano and the Problem of Classical Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Abstract | This session will explore the creative tensions between ancient Latin poets and later medieval authors. The first presentation will assess the extensive influence of the Roman poet Ovid on the 'Libro de Buen Amor' - an early and highly influential vernacular Spanish text. The other two presentations will examine the presence of classical poetry in two Italian humanist authors who wrote in Latin: Vegio's use of Virgil as a vehicle of self-presentation and and Mantovano's response to those who opposed the use of such pagan classical models. |