I can only offer triple gratitude and excitement. Dana Sutton's work is
invaluable. I presented on the neolatin Cambridge play _Ignoramus_ a few
years ago at the RSA, and that never would have happened without
Professor Sutton's text and translation. I agree with Hannibal that the
Philological Museum deserves more recognition. Along those lines, how
wonderful that Sarah Knight will be reviewing it for _Reformation_.
And congratulations and thanks to you, Lee Piepho. Mantuan has always
been one of those "someday I need to read him" writers for me, and
you've just made someday come a lot sooner. Thank you!
-Andy Strycharski
Hannibal Hamlin wrote:
> I'll second Lee's praise for Dana Sutton's /Philological Museum/, which
> seems/ /the kind of selfless scholarly project that ought to get more
> attention and accolades. Given how quickly even relatively well-known
> works in English go out of print these days, online texts seem perhaps
> the best option for many neo-Latin works like those of Mantuan. That
> these works are also available with expert translations and commentary
> by dedicated Latinists like Lee is fantastic, especially for those of us
> who wish our Latin were better than it is!
>
> I'll also announce to those who are interested that there is a review of
> the website in the forthcoming issue (vol. 13) of /Reformation/, written
> by Sarah Knight (University of Leicester). Perhaps if more journals,
> both in print and online, feature reviews of websites or of online texts
> and editions these materials will become better known and appreciated.
>
> Hannibal
>
>
> On 1/13/09, *Lee Piepho* <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Apologies for the cross-listing. But there is a good deal of
> information on Spenser's use of Mantuan's eclogues in my edition.
> Just do a word search and follow the hypertext links.....
> LP
>
> If I may be permitted a bit of self-promotion on behalf of a larger
> cause, I'd like to announce that my translation and edition of
> /Adulescentia/, the Latin eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus (known as
> "Mantuan" in England since the sixteenth century), has just gone on
> line as a hypertext in the Philological Museum:
> http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/mantuanus/ For those of you who
> don't know it, the Museum is a Web site
> (http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk
> <http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/>/) overseen by Dana Sutton and
> based at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.
>
>
ogical Museum strikes me as helping us to
> weave together again the vast /respublica litterarum/ that once
> unified literary culture in Britain and continental Europe.
>
> Lee Piepho
>
> Shallenberger Brown Research Professor of English Literature
>
> Sweet Briar College
>
> Sweet Briar, VA 24595
>
>
>
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> Associate Professor of English
> The Ohio State University
> Burkhardt Fellow,
> The Folger Shakespeare Library
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> Washington, DC 20003
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