Habent sua fata libelli honors the work of Craig Kallendorf, offering studies in several fields in which he chiefly distinguished himself: the history of the book and reading, the classical tradition and reception studies, Renaissance humanism, and Virgilian scholarship with a special focus on the creative transformation of the Aeneid through the centuries. The volume is rounded out by an appreciation of Craig Kallendorf, including a review of his scholarship and its significance.
In addition to the topics mentioned above, the volumeâs twenty-five contributions are of relevance to those working in the fields of classical philology, Neo-Latin, political philosophy, poetry and poetics, printing and print culture, Romance languages, art history, translation studies, and Renaissance and early modern Europe generally.
Steven M. Oberhelman (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981), is Associate Dean and Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University. The author or editor of eleven books, his latest book is Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020).
Giancarlo Abbamonte (Ph.D., University of Salerno, Italy, 1995), teaches Classical Philology at the Federico II University of Naples. His research focuses on classical reception, commentaries and lexicography. He has co-edited Niccolò Perotti's Cornu copiae and Iacopo d'Angelo's Latin translations of Plutarch.
Patrick Baker (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2009), teaches History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is the author of Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) and has edited several volumes on historiography, biography, and classical reception.
Acknowledgements List of Figures Note to the Reader Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âSteven M. Oberhelman, Giancarlo Abbamonte, Patrick Baker
1 Craig Kallendorf: The Man and His Work
âRichard F. Thomas
Part 1: Virgil and His Works
2 Aeneas in Campania: Notes on Naevius as a Model for the Aeneid
âAlessandro Barchiesi
3 Virgilâs Incomplete Lines: A Challenge for Translators
âSusanna Braund
14 The Kingâs Citizens: Francesco Patrizi of Siena on Citizenship in Monarchies
âJames Hankins
15 The Letters of Ignatius of Antioch as a Philological and Epistemological Issue from the Reformation to Today
âJohn Monfasani
16 Boccaccio and Early Italian Humanism
âMarianne Pade
17 Working with Style: On Translating Boccaccioâs Decameron
âWayne A. Rebhorn
18 Giovanni Aurispa e Tommaso Parentucelli: unâamicizia speciale
âLucia Gualdo Rosa
19 Two Nations, Two Foundations: The Renaissanceâs âOther Romeâ
âAlden Smith
20 Encounters with the Latin Past: Subiaco, Colonna, and Poems of Lepanto
âSarah Spence
Part 5: The Material Book, Manuscripts, and Printed Editions
21 Chasing Commentaries: Kaspar Schoppe, Jacques Bongars, and Pierre Daniel, or the Backstory to the Servius Danielis Revisited
âIngrid De Smet
22 The Ignorant Reader: Imagining Vernacular Literacies in Seventeenth-Century England
âMargaret J. M. Ezell
23 Ut liber picturaâ: Rembrandt peintre de livres
âColette Nativel
24 The Book Trade in Venice under Foreign Dominations (1797â1866)
âMarino Zorzi
General Index
Scholars of the history of the book and reading, the classical tradition and reception studies, Renaissance humanism, Virgil and Virgilian studies, Neo-Latin, and Renaissance and early modern Europe generally. Keywords: Virgil, poetry, Aeneid, Latin, Neo-Latin, Renaissance, literature, history, philology, reception studies, manuscripts, printing, translation, paratexts, Greek.