This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations and appropriations of both the personality and the writings of Horace in the early modern age. The fifteen essays in this book are devoted to uncharted facets of the reception of Horace and thus substantially broaden our picture of the Horatian tradition. Special attention is given to the legacy of Horace in the visual arts and in music, beyond the domain of letters. By focusing on the multiple channels through which the influence of Horace was felt and transmitted, this volume aims to present instances of the Horatian heritage across the media, and to stimulate a more thorough reflection on an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace.
Contributors: Veronica Brandis, Philippe Canguilhem, Giacomo Comiati, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Carolin A. Giere, Inga Mai Groote, Luke B.T. Houghton, Chris Joby, Marc Laureys, Grantley McDonald, Lukas Reddemann, Bernd Roling, Robert Seidel, Marcela SlavÃková, Paul J. Smith, and Tijana Žakula.
Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (1990) is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. 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.
Marc Laureys, Ph.D. (1992) is Professor for Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin Philology at the University of Bonn. He has published extensively on early modern historiography and antiquarianism and the reception of classical authors in Neo-Latin literature.
List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors
1 Some Introductory Thoughts on the Reception of Horace in the Early Modern Age
âMarc Laureys
Part 1: The Reception of the Ars Poetica as a Model for the Theory of Painting, Drama, Diplomacy, Cookery and Other Arts
2 Rethinking Horace in Dutch Classicist Art Theory and in the Theory of Poetry and Drama: Gerard de Lairesse and Andries Pels
âTijana Žakula
3 From Poetry to Cookery, Architecture, and Stock-Jobbing: Imitation and Parodia of Horaceâs Ars Poetica in 18th-Century England
âLukas Reddemann
Part 2: The Reception of Horace in the Visual Arts
4 The Reception of Horace in the Visual Arts, 15th Century until ca. 1840: A First Exploration
âKarl A.E. Enenkel
5 Vaeniusâs Pluri-Medial Horace: Images for Contemplation, Primer of Philosophy, Iconological Templates for Artists, Latin Commonplace Book, and Vernacular Emblem Book
âKarl A.E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith
Part 3: Horace and Music
6 Before Melopoiae: Conrad Celtis, Laurentius Corvinus, Arnold Wöstefeld and the Use of Music in the Teaching and Performance of Horaceâs Metres around 1500
âGrantley McDonald
7 Horace among Early Modern Teachers and Music Theorists: Poetics and Songs
âInga Mai Groote
8 Singing Horace in Sixteenth-Century France: A Reappraisal of the Sources and Their Interpretation
âPhilippe Canguilhem
Part 4: Other Materializations of Horace: School Book Production and Funeral Inscriptions
9 Librum pulcherrimum et utilissimum edidit: Editions of Horace by Johannes Honorius Cubitensis (c.1465â1504)
âMarcela SlavÃková
10 Horace and Sepulchral Sapphics â Some English Examples
âLuke B.T. Houghton
Part 5: The Reception of the Odes in Early Modern Lyrical Poetry
11 The Reception of the âHoratian Hymnâ in Quattrocento Neo-Latin Poetry: Aurelius Laurentius Albrisius and Giovanni Pontano
âCarolin A. Giere
12 Horace across Seventeenth-Century Italian Literature: Carlo deâ Dottori and his Odes
âGiacomo Comiati
13 âAs closely as possible after the model of Horaceâ? Degrees of Horatianism in James Alban Gibbesâ Lyric Poetry
âMarc Laureys
14 On the Reception of Horaceâs Carmen Saeculare in the Early Modern Period
âVeronika Brandis and Robert Seidel
Part 6: Horatian Topics and Commonplaces
15 John Cruso of Norwich and the Reception of Horatius Sententiosus in Early Modern Provincial England
âChristopher Joby
16 De laudibus vitae rusticae: Horaceâs Second Epode and the Tradition of Georgic Poetry
âBernd Roling
Index Nominum
Scholars, (post-graduate) students and all others specialized or interested in the history of the Classical Tradition and Reception Studies. Keywords: Horace, Reception, Imitation and Emulation, Classical Tradition, Classical Learning, Theory of Art, Theory of Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Georgic Poetry, Music, Commonplace Books.