Notes on the Editors
Karl Enenkel
is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster (Germany). Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at Leiden University (Netherlands). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300â1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science. Among his major book publications are Francesco Petrarca: De vita solitaria, Buch 1. (1991); Die Erfindung des Menschen. Die Autobiographik des frühneuzeitlichen Humanismus von Petrarca bis Lipsius (2008); Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350âca. 1650). Zur autorisierenden und wissensvermittelnden Funktion von Widmungen, Vorworttexten, Autorporträts und Dedikationsbildern (2015); The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510â1610 (2019), and Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears. Constructions of a Glorious Past in the Early Modern Netherlands and Europe (with Koen Ottenheym, 2019). He has (co)edited and co-authored some 35 volumes on a variety of topics; some key topics are Modelling the Individual. Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance (1998), Recreating Ancient History (2001), Mundus Emblematicus. Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books (2003), Cognition and the Book (2004), Petrarch and his Readers (2006), Early Modern Zoology (2007), Meditatio â Refashioning the Self. Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture (2011), Portuguese Humanism (2011), The Authority of the Word (2011), Discourses of Power. Ideology and Politics in Neo-Latin Literature (2012), The Reception of Erasmus (2013), Transformation of the Classics (2013), Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge (2013), Zoology in Early Modern Culture (2014), Iohannes de Certaldo. Beiträge zu Boccaccios lateinischen Werken und ihrer Wirkung (2015), Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period (2015), Jesuit Image Theory (2016), Emblems and the Natural World (2017), The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture (2018), Solitudo. Spaces, Places, and Times of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures (2018), and The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture (2018). He has founded the international series Intersections. Studies in Early Modern Culture (Brill); Proteus. Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation; Speculum Sanitatis: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medical Culture (500â1800) (both Brepols), and Scientia universalis. Studien und Texteditionen zur Wissensgeschichte der Vormoderne (LIT-Münster). Currently he prepares a critical edition of and a commentary on Erasmusâs Apophthegmata, books VâVIII.
Jan L. de Jong
is Senior Lecturer of Art History of the Early Modern Period, at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. His research focuses on the interpretation of themes from classical mythology and history in Italian Renaissance art, papal propaganda in the 15th and 16th centuries, and reports of visitors to Rome in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. He is currently working on a book on tomb monuments from the Early Modern Period in Rome. In 2001, he was Visiting Lecturer in Renaissance and Baroque Art at the Department of Art History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and he spent part of 2009 as a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Wassenaar. From 1990 to 2006 he was an editorial board member of Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Netherlands Yearbook for the History of Art). Since 1999 he has been an editorial board member (and secretary) of Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, and since 2017 also Editor in Chief of Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani. He has co-edited a number of volumes, among others Recreating Ancient History (2001), On the Edge of Truth and Honesty (2002), The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs (2003), The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks (2010) and Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550â1700 (2019). In 2013 he published The Power and the Glorification. Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (University Park, PA, Penn State University Press).