Petrarch And His Readers in the Renaissance

Friends and Foes of the Poet Laureate was a conference held in December 2004 in Leiden, the Netherlands where earlier versions of these 13 papers were delivered. Historians of literature and art examine how Italian poet and humanist Petrarch (1304-74) impacted his readers, contemporary and posthumous, in his own 14th century and in 16th-century Germany, Italy, France, and the Low Countries. Only names are indexed. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Neo-Latin Literature at Leiden University and teaches classical Latin and Neo-Latin in the Department of Classics. He is the author of Francesco Petrarca: De vita solitaria, Buch 1. Kritische Textausgabe und ideengeschichtlicher Kommentar and of Kulturoptimismus und Kulturpessimismus in der Renaissance, editor and (co)author of Modelling the Individual. Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance (1998), Lipsius in Leiden (1997), Recreating Ancient History (2001) and of several studies on the reception of Classical Literature in the Early Modern Times. He has (co)edited recently Mundus Emblematicus. Studies on Neo-Latin Emblem Books (2003), The Manipulative Mode. Political Propaganda in Antiquity (2005) and Cognition and the Book. Typologies of Formal Organisation of Knowledge in the Printed Book of the Early Modern Period (2005). He has published extensively on international Humanism and on the reception of Classical Antiquity and is the general editor of Intersections. Yearbook for Early Modern Studies.Jan Papy is Research Professor of Neo-Latin at the Catholic University of Leuven. His research focuses mainly on Italian humanism (Petrarch, Pico della Mirandola), Humanism in the Low Countries (Vives, Erasmus, Lipsius), Intellectual History and Renaissance Philosophy in the Low Countries (16th-17th centuries). He is the author of numerous articles dealing with subjects related to these fields. Besides, he is the editor of Iusti Lipsi Epistolae: Pars XIII (1600), Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Brussels, 2000), and he has co-edited Justus Lipsius, Europae lumen et columen. Proceedings of the International Colloquium Leuven-Antwerp, 17-20 September 1997 (Leuven, 1999), and Self-Presentation and Social Identification. The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times (Leuven, 2002). He is member of the editorial board of Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal for Neo-Latin Studies.