The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome. It traces the contours of this battle across Renaissance Europe, waged by humanist Latin poets negotiating different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work.
The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome. It traces the contours of this battle across Renaissance Europe, waged by humanist Latin poets negotiating different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work.
Susanna de Beer studied Classics at Leiden University and holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. She is Senior Lecturer in (Renaissance) Latin Literature and Early Modern Studies at Leiden University, with a specialization in Classical Reception Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and Digital Humanities. She is currently on detachment as Director of Ancient Studies and Classical Receptions at the Royal Netherlands Institute (KNIR) in Rome. In 2009 she co-edited The Neo-Latin Epigram: A Learned and Witty Genre and in 2013 she published The Poetics of Patronage: Poetry as Self-Advancement in Giannantonio Campano.
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Acknowledgements Conventions Introduction: Forging Privileged Links to an Idealized Past 1: A New Golden Age. Rome Reclaims her Ancient Past 2: Competing Appropriations of Rome's Empire without End 3: Weaponized Images of Roman Virtue and Vice 4: The Symbolic Resonances of Rome's Cityscape 5: The Humanist Poets as "New Romans" Epilogue Appendix of Humanist Authors Bibliography Illustrations Index locorum General Index
Acknowledgements Conventions Introduction: Forging Privileged Links to an Idealized Past 1: A New Golden Age. Rome Reclaims her Ancient Past 2: Competing Appropriations of Rome's Empire without End 3: Weaponized Images of Roman Virtue and Vice 4: The Symbolic Resonances of Rome's Cityscape 5: The Humanist Poets as "New Romans" Epilogue Appendix of Humanist Authors Bibliography Illustrations Index locorum General Index
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