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Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614: 194
Author(s): Hélène Cazes (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 19 Nov. 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 504 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004192093
- ISBN-13: 9789004192096
Book Description
This volume gathers studies and documentation on Bonaventura Vulcanius, a versatile philologist and writer who in 1581 settled in Leiden as a Professor of Greek and Latin. It includes many unpublished texts pertaining to this mysterious figure Dutch Humanism.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"The present publication offers an important basis for further study into the life and work of Vulcanius [...] this collection of essays has a broad scope and explores contemporary archival and printed material, two reasons for appreciating it as an important stimulus to continued research."Henk Nellen, Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 65, No. 1 (Spring 2012), pp. 189-191.
"Une chronologie bio-bibliographique, une bibliographie détaillée, et un index de noms propres font de ce livre une oeuvre de référence incontournable pour tout examen ultérieur du monde et des écrits de Bonaventure Vulcanius." Ingrid A. R. De Smet,
Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 73 (2011), no. 3, pp. 733-734.This volume gathers recent research on this versatile philologist [Vulcanius], and includes the first editions of many unpublished works and documents.
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About the Author
Hélène Cazes (Doctorate 1998 , Paris X-Nanterre, Renaissance Literature) teaches at the University of Victoria, Canada. She studies the history of texts, books, and scholars. She has published extensively on the Estienne dynasty and on the fortune of classical texts.
