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2. Course Overview
Comprehensive Description: Using Marcantonio Flaminio’s first book of poems as a framework, we will discuss the many meters used by Catullus and his Renaissance imitators. We will also cover the intellectual environment in which Flaminio wrote, touching on other Latin and Italian authors of the period (early 16th century) within his intellectual orbit.
Each class will combine short lectures with reading and discussion of the day’s text. In most classes, we will read at least one poem by Flaminio as well as ancient poems, most often by Catullus but occasionally by other authors, such as Horatius or Vergil, which influenced the meters, phrasing, and subjects chosen by Flaminio. We will also glance over the works of Flaminio’s contemporaries, including those whom he addresses, mentions by name, or otherwise references in his poems, and consider thier influence on his writing. After the class, the students will be expected to summarize in prose a poem of their choice read during the class period.
3. PROFICIENCY & REQUIREMENTS
Language Level:
Framework Reference: Students ought to have reached at least chapter 40 of LLPSI or equivalent.
General Description: Students should be able to not only read easier Latin poetry (e.g., works at the level of Catullus, Vergil’s Carmina Bucolica), but discuss and paraphrase the texts read in class both orally and in writing is a necessity.
Etimated Self-Study Time:
○ Time Commitment: 2-4 hours per week.
○ Preparation Type: Students are not required to have read the poems before we look at them together in class. However, prose composition assignments will be given each week, and the students are encouraged to review what was read in class.
4. Materials & Bibliography
Required texts: We will be using this edition of Flaminio’s poems from 1831.
Further Reading:
Maddison, Carol. Marcantonio Flaminio: Poet, Humanist, and Reformer. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1965.
Raven, D. S. Latin Metre. Faber and Faber. 1965.
Gaisser, Julia Haig. Catullus and his Renaissance readers. Oxford University Press. 1993.
Grant, W. Leonard. Neo-Latin Literature and the Pastoral. University of North Carolina Press. 1965.
Harrington, Karl Pomeroy. Catullus and his influence. Longmans, Green and Co, New York. 1927.
Wiseman, T. P. Catullus and his world: a reappraisal. Cambridge University Press. 1985.
Maddison, Carol. “The Humanist Ode.” Apollo and the nine: a history of the ode. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1960.
Campbell, David A. “Galliambic poems of the 15th and 16th centuries: sources of the Bacchic odes of the Pleiade school.” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 22, no. 3, 1960, pp. 490–510.
Nichols, Fred J. “The Development of Neo-Latin Theory of the Pastoral in the Sixteenth Century.” Humanistica Lovaniensia, vol. 18, 1969, pp. 95–114.
Thomas, Oliver, Homeric and/or Hymns: Some Fifteenth-century Approaches, The Reception of the Homeric Hymns. Oxford University Press. Nov. 2016. pp. 277-300.
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