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John Milton, Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and Uncollected Letters

Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Estelle Haan (ed.)

John Milton holds an impressive place within the rich tradition of neo-Latin epistolography. His Epistolae Familiares and uncollected letters paint an invigorating portrait of the artist as a young man, offering insight into his reading programme, his views on education, friendship, poetry, his relations with continental literati, his blindness, and his role as Latin Secretary. This edition presents a modernised Latin text and a facing English translation, complemented by a detailed introduction and a comprehensive commentary. Situating Milton’s letters in relation to the classical, pedagogical, neo-Latin, and vernacular contexts at the heart of their composition, it presents fresh evidence in regard to Milton’s relationships with the Italian philologist Benedetto Buonmattei, the Greek humanist Leonard Philaras, the radical pastor Jean de Labadie, and the German diplomat Peter Heimbach. It also announces several new discoveries, most notably a manuscript of Henry Oldenburg’s transcription of Ep. Fam. 25. This volume fills an important gap in Milton scholarship, and will prove of particular use to Milton scholars, students, philologists, neo-Latinists, and those interested in the humanist reinvention of the epistolographic tradition.

€ 90,00 / £80.00 ISBN 9789462701878 October 2019 Paperback, 15,6 × 23,4 cm ca. 556 pp. Latin/English Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 44 ebook available Estelle Haan is professor emerita of English and Neo-Latin Studies at Queen’s

University, Belfast.

First full-scale edition of John Milton’s Latin and uncollected vernacular letters

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Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism

Han Lamers · Bettina Reitz-Joosse · Valerio Sanzotta (eds)

This book deals with the use of Latin as a literary and epigraphic language under Italian Fascism (1922–1943). The myth of Rome lay at the heart of Italian Fascist ideology, and the ancient language of Rome, too, played an important role in the regime’s cultural politics. This collection deepens our understanding of ‘Fascist Latinity’, presents a range of previously littleknown material, and opens up a number of new avenues of research. The chapters explore the pivotal role of Latin in constructing a link between ancient Rome and Fascist Italy; the different social and cultural contexts in which Latin texts functioned in the ventennio fascista; and the way in which ‘Fascist Latinity’ relied on, and manipulated, the ‘myth of Rome’ of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy.

€ 59,50 / £53.00 ISBN 978 94 6270 207 3 December 2019 Paperback, 15,6 × 23,4 cm 24 b&w illustrations ca. 380 pp. English Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46 ebook available

First collected volume dealing with the use of Latin under Fascism

Han Lamers is associate professor of Classics at the Department of Philosophy,

Classics, and the History of Art and Ideas of the University of Oslo. Bettina Reitz-Joosse is assistant professor of Latin Language and Literature at the

University of Groningen. Valerio Sanzotta is key researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin

Studies in Innsbruck.

Contributors: William Barton (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Xavier van Binnebeke (KU Leuven), Paolo Fedeli (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro), Han Lamers (University of Oslo), Johanna Luggin (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Antonino Nastasi (Rome), Bettina Reitz-Joosse (University of Groningen), Dirk Sacré (KU Leuven), Valerio Sanzotta (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Wolfgang Strobl (Toblach).

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