Publication

2010 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

122,250 words, Guess

Page Count

489 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC409.2
  • DDCB
  • LCCPA85.V8 B66 2010
and 1 more
  • LCCPA85

Description

"The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts. Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated many a rare text, composed dictionaries, sent laudatory poems, and compiled the first chapters of a history of Germanic languages. This volume gathers recent research on this versatile philologist, and includes the first edition of many unpublished works and documents."--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 194

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