List of contributors Preface INTRODUCTION (Lucy R. Nicholas, Kings College London, UK and William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria) 1 European Neo-Latin and its development 2 Neo-Latin as a literary medium 3 Neo-Latin literature and its genres 4 Aims and coverage of this volume 5 Latin texts: sources and conventions 6 Bibliography TEXTS 1 A pastoral exchange on the treatment of poetry Battista Spagnoli Mantovano (14471516), Adolescentia 5.123, 6891, 11125 (Bobby Xinyue, University of Warwick, UK) 2 The pierced ear: divine revelation and impregnation Jacopo Sannazaro (14581530), De partu Virginis, extracts from Book 1 (Lucy R. Nicholas, Kings College London, UK) 3 The abbot and the learned woman Desiderius Erasmus (14661536), Colloquia (Abbatis et Eruditae) (Astrid Khoo, Harvard University, USA) 4 Christopher Columbus first voyage Pietro Bembo (14701547), Rerum Venetarum historiae libri, extracts from 6.13 (Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA) 5 Morbid measures and contaminated airs: the poetics of pox Girolamo Fracastoro (1476/81553), Syphilis sive de morbo Gallico, extracts (Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA) 6 A Protestant on the attack in Latin Martin Luther (14831546), De abroganda missa privata (Lucy R. Nicholas, Kings College London, UK) 7 Greeting Charles at Bordeaux George Buchanan (15061582), Silvae 1 (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 8 Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum (15151519), Letter 1.37: The converted Jew and his foreskin (Daniel Hadas, Kings College London, UK) 9 The pleasures of the hills Conrad Gessner (15161565), Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati, pp. 479 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria) 10 Neo-Latin love elegy Joachim Du Bellay (c. 15221560), selection from Amores (1558) (Paul White, University of Leeds, UK) 11 A Jesuit encounter with an Indian Yogi Francesco Benci (15421594), Quinque martyres 5.96132 (Paul Gwynne, The American University of Rome, Italy) 12 Mary, liturgy and missions Francisco Enzinas Correspondence with Robert Bellarmine (16051607) (Jan Machielsen, Cardiff University, UK) 13 Senecas death dramatized Matthew Gwinne (15581627), Nero: Nova Tragaedia (1603), Act 5, Scene 6 (Emma Buckley, St Andrews University, UK) 14 Virgilian commentary Juan Luis de la Cerda (1558/601643), on Aeneas first appearance in the Aeneid (Fiachra Mac Gorain, University College London, UK) 15 Vitalist philosophy from a long lost author Anne Conway (16311679), Principia philosophiae antiquissimae & recentissimae, excerpts from Chapter VII (Laurynas Adomaitis, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy) 16 A new approach to studying old documents Jean Mabillon (16321707), De re diplomatica, extracts (Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 17 Newton on theology Isaac Newton (16421727), theological section from the General Scholium to the Principia mathematica (Pablo Toribio, Spanish National Research Council, Spain) 18 Damnation and divine justice Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461716), Confessio philosophi, extract (Lucy Sheaf, Kings College London, UK) 19 A school play Gottlob Krantz (16601733), Memorabilia Bibliothecae Wratislaviensis, excerpts from Acts I and IV (Jacqueline Glomski, University College London, UK) Index