Creating a Nation through an Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry
Bohemians as a Community of Honour in the Mid-16th Century
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Farragines poematum, an extensive, four-volume anthology of Neo-Latin poems, was published in 1561–1562 by a group of former Wittenberg students based in Prague. This study focuses on how this collective literary project originated, how the anthology was prepared and what reasons poets might have had for publishing a representative selection of their own works of poetry and their friends’. It demonstrates how the final form of the anthology was influenced by the strategies of gaining patronage. Following the concepts of Caspar Hirschi, this study discusses which role anthology, as a specific literary type, could have played in the early stages of the Humanist ‘competition for national honour’, how it presents the community of poets in the Bohemian lands and the spread of education from Italy to the Transalpine regions to prove the quality of local scholars.
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Creating a Nation through an Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry
Bohemians as a Community of Honour in the Mid-16th Century
In: DaphnisSearch for other papers by Lucie Storchová in
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Abstract
Farragines poematum, an extensive, four-volume anthology of Neo-Latin poems, was published in 1561–1562 by a group of former Wittenberg students based in Prague. This study focuses on how this collective literary project originated, how the anthology was prepared and what reasons poets might have had for publishing a representative selection of their own works of poetry and their friends’. It demonstrates how the final form of the anthology was influenced by the strategies of gaining patronage. Following the concepts of Caspar Hirschi, this study discusses which role anthology, as a specific literary type, could have played in the early stages of the Humanist ‘competition for national honour’, how it presents the community of poets in the Bohemian lands and the spread of education from Italy to the Transalpine regions to prove the quality of local scholars.
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