Neo-Latin Anthologies (until c. 1900)
Introduction
Anthologies of Neo-Latin poetry are a sorely understudied subject. Yet, they not only are useful as a selection, that can help us navigate in the mare magnum of Neo-Latin poetry. They are very likely to have had an impact on the development of Neo-Latin literature as well. By selecting, they inform a canon of 'good' poetry worthy to be read and imitated. Poetry in successful anthologies circulates more widely and has probably a more significant influence on other poets.
Morever, an anthology is not just a compilation of texts. It also mirrors more often than not a social network. This is most apparent in the case of anthologies of contemporary poets. The editors/compilators bring together texts from authors they directly or indirectly are in touch with. In the case of anthologies of authors from chronologically or geographically more distant contexts, the editors/compilators will be more likely to include texts they can get hold of via their intellectual network. In any case, it is rewarding to analyse which texts are chosen.
Two major project have so far devoted scholarly attention to anthologies. These are:
- Bridging the Continental divide: neo-Latin and its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland, as seen in the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (1637)
- Carmina Suecorum Poetarum Latina, working on Samuel Älf's (1727-1799) manuscript collection of Swedish Neo-Latin poetry (project description here)
In this repository, I present a link list of noteworthy Neo-Latin anthologies, most notably Gruterus' Delitiae.
Anthologies
Delitiae
Delitiae C. Poetarum Gallorum (3 voll., Frankfurt 1609)
Delitiae Poetarum Germanorum (6 voll., Frankfurt 1612)
Delitiae Poetarum Italorum (2 voll., Frankfurt 1608)
Delitiae Poetarum Belgicorum (4 voll., Frankfurt 1614)
Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (2 voll., Amst. 1637)
Delitiae Poetarum Danorum (2 voll., Lugd. B. 1693)
Delitiae poetarum Hungarorum (1 vol., Frankfurt 1619)
Miscellaneous
| title | editor | volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Carmina illustrium poetarum Italorum | Matthaeus Toscanus | v. 1 (Paris 1576), v. 2 (Paris 1577) |
| Carmina illustrium poetarum Italorum | Bottarius | v. 1 (Florence 1719), v. 2 (Florence 1719), v. 3 (Florence 1719), v. 4 (Florence 1719), v. 5 (Florence 1720), v. 6 (Florence 1720), v. 7 (Florence 1720), v. 8 (Florence 1721), v. 9 (Florence 1722) |
| Carmina selecta ex illustrioribus poetis saeculi decimiquinti et decimisexti | p. 1 (Verona 1732), p. 2 (Verona 1732) | |
| Horti Tres Amorum Amoenissimi | Aegidius Periander | p. 1 Hortus Italorum Poetarum (Frankfurt 1567) |
| Carmina quinque illustrium poetarum | Florence 1552 | |
| Carmina Poetarum Nobilium | Ubaldinus, Ioannes Paulus | Milan 1563 |
| Poemata Selecta Italorum Qui Seculo Decimo Sexto Latine Scripserunt, Nonnullis Adnotationibus Illustrata | Oxford/London 1808 | |
| Recentiorum poetarum germanorum carmina latina selectior | Roenickius, Iohannes Tobias | v. 1 (Helmstedt 1749), v. 2 (Helmstedt 1751) |
| Corpus Illustrium Poetarum Lusitanorum | Antonio dos Reys | t. 1 (Lisbon 1745), t. 2 (Lisbon 1745), t. 3 (Lisbon 1745), t. 4 (Lisbon 1745), t. 5 (Lisbon 1745), t. 6 (Lisbon 1748), t. 7 (Lisbon 1748) |
| Anthologia poematum latinorum aevi recentioris | Pauly, August | Tübingen 1818 |
| Carmina Latina a poetis recentioris aetatis composita | Carolus F. G. Siedhof | Stuttgart 1845, no digital copy known |
| Die Latinität der Neuern von dem Wiederaufleben der Wissenschaften bis auf unsere Zeiten | Karl Ferdinand Philippi | Leipzig 1825 |
| Musarum Anglicanarum analecta | Oxford 1692, Oxford 1699, London 1714, London 1721; London 1741, London 1761 | |
| Lyra Doctorum : Carmina Lyrica a Viris Doctis Recentiorum Temporum Composita | Draheim, Johannes | Lipsiae 1886 |
| Antologia della lirica latina in Italia: nei secoli XV e XVI | Emilio Costa | Città di Castello 1888 |
| Deliciæ Parnassi, seu, Fragmenta poetarum, pasquinatæ | Thomas Rogers | Dublin 1700 |
| ΑΝΘΟΛΟΓΊΑ seu selecta quaedam poemata Italorum, qui latine scripserunt | London 1684 | |
| Quinque illustrium poetarum ... Lusus in Venerem | Paris 1791 | |
| Eclogae illustrium poetarum latinorum recentioris aevi | Johann Georg Krabinger | Munich 1835 |
| Erotopaegnion, sive Priapeia veterum et recentiorum | F. Noel | Paris 1798 |
| Ubi sunt, qui ante nos in mundo fuere? : Ausgewählte lateinische Studenten-, Trink-, Liebes- und andere Lieder des vierzehnten bis achtzehnten Jahrhunderts aus verschiedenen Quellen, mit neudeutschen Uebertragungen, geschichtlicher Einleitung, Erläuterungen, Beigabe und einer Abbildung ; eine literaturgeschichtliche Studie, zugleich ein Liederbuch | Pernwerth von Bärnstein | Würzburg 1881 |
| Carmina selecta oblatorum qui superiore saeculo floruerunt | Catena, Bartolommeo | Milan 1832 |
| Recentiorum poetarum selecta carmina | Fröbel, Carl Poppo | Rudolphopoli, 1821-1822 |
| Poemata didascalica | François Oudin | 1813 |
| Parnasse latin moderne | Brunel | 1808 |
| Musa Etonenses : seu carminum delectus nunc primum in lucem editus | London 1795 | |
| Eclogae recentiorum carminum Latinorum | Mitscherlich, Christoph Wilhelm | Hannover 1793 |
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Neo-Latin anthologies.
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Winkler, Alexander: "Neo-Latin anthologies" (2023), https://github.com/alexander-winkler/nlat_anth (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7921137
