... Vegio writing of light verse humanist poetics Renaissance reception of Virgil poetic identity In 1438, following years of personal, political, and ecclesiastical tribulations, Pope Eugenius IV finally succeeded in convening the Council of Florence. 1 Accompanying him to the city as part...

... to their present doubt or demand.”15 In Gataker, it is the book, in its “sudden opening,” that provides the means for prophecy; he presents a direct interaction between the material text and the seekers, who “take that [verse] which they first light on.” In contrast with the ancient accounts, the early...

... the clergy. These trends, I argue, shaped the writing practices of clerics, and, in doing so, had a decisive impact on the history of verse in the period. Despite the “religious turn” in early modern scholarship, the influence on verse of the clergy, understood as an occupational group, has not been...

..., they shall be looked vpon.” Quoting and then bracketing that portion of the verse, as he does with all the parts of the Bishops’ Bible that he pro- poses emending, Ward then writes, “melius, vt Genev.” [better, as in the Geneva], where the line in question, there positioned as Wisdom 3:7, reads...

... the entrie of the said Quadrant, but the verses being vnhappily turned inward to the wall, procured the like in effect to be grauen outward in prose, declaring him to be a Fishmonger, because some vpon a light occasion (as a maidens heade in a glasse window) had fabled him...

... offers just one remedy to treat the fears caused by the devil, writing, “than is this the remedye, to knawe tham bath and refuse the fals, righte as we walde do a wikked spiritte that shewed him in liknes of a goode angelle” (25/119). This version of the remedy recalls the verse from 2 Corinthians—“Satan...

... with the heavenly bodies. He himself has declared that his body is the flint stone from which hope for mankind is struck. A number of verses even describe various ways to make candles and torches. According to the German trans- lator, all of the poem’s luminous rhetoric refers to the ceremonial lighting...

... who are searching for a religious discourse but who lapse into formless- ness. His verse is thus, he says, like the kind of bee that brings honey with no sting. As a form in general, hedging between simple poetic shape and a freer realm of contemplation, Brereley writes like George Wither, although...

... into the many ways that women of all social ranks contributed to the making, weaving, writing, printing, etching, annotating, composing, and publishing of English literary culture. This essay takes a fresh look at the authorship of Isabella Whitney, the earliest identified woman to publish secular English verse...

...): 19–20. 17 Only two other elegists, Lucius Cary and Jasper Mayne, directly acknowledge Donne’s troublesome habit of writing erotic verse. Both adopt Walton’s strategy, dismissing the poems as an inconsequential folly of Donne’s youth. Walton himself refers to almost every other aspect...

... to Troas . 9 Close to the end of this preface, Heywood spells out his method of translating Seneca. He writes, “I haue for my sclender learning, endeuored to keepe touche wyth the Latten, not woord for woorde or verse for verse as to expounde it, but neglectyng the placyng of the wordes obserued theyr...

... the later treatises of Eleanor Hull and John Fisher, contains a verse-by-verse commentary that selectively “translates” Latin commentaries and thus serves as a vernacular lexicon for the “songs” of David and the writings of the “haly doctours.”18 Rolle trans- lates the first verse as “Lord in thi...

... the Alcaná of Toledo ready to translate old Arabic manuscripts. (One of those manu- scripts contained the very adventures of Don Quixote.) In Madrid, Bib- lioteca Nacional MS 4955, a gigantic pen of light writes its inexorable mes- sage upon the heavens without...

... of their own making or shortly thereafter juxtaposed in the manuscripts that contain them with other kinds of informational writing — recipes, medical texts, treatises on hunting and hawking, lapidaries, moral proverbs, and more.1 But the production and consumption of such household books...

... these practices. This essay explores early modern permutational systems by examin- ing Wallis’s calculation and the examples he uses to explain it: letters and bells. In the century before he was writing, both had been used in England to exemplify rigorous permutation: letters, in the craze...

...Andrew Fleck Aemilia Lanyer refers extensively to the Gospels in writing her poem on the Passion, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum . Alluding to the events of Christ's final day, she incorporates details from each of the Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion. Focusing on specific echoes of the translations...

... to those elements of Ibn Janāh.’s and Tanh.um's writings marked by the exegetical tradition of peshat. —“an empirical, contextual reading of Scripture that adheres to the rules of language, biblical literary conventions and historical context”—and by their frequent recourse to Arabic to elucidate biblical...

... a description, but a microcosmic enactment of spiritual work. Examining how the Cloud-­author devises and deploys this sensory simulacrum sheds light on two relatively dark corners of his literary philosophy: his stance on the role of sensation in the work of the spirit; and his perspective...

... of the examples discussed above, as the sources of Chaucer’s biblicism (wher- ever, that is, he found his biblical texts) are adapted and take on meaning in light of different compilational forms. Chaucer’s interest in the “discourse of compilatio” is suggested throughout his writings, from his self...

... the rhetorical decorum of his hosts’ pub- lished poetry. By turning instead to the mock encomium as a lowly genre, Catherine Des Roches was interpellated by Pasquier as the producer of light verse—the salon was constituted as a site of delectation and diversion. This is consistent with the historian...