Helene Cazes, "Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614 (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)"
English | ISBN 10: 9004192093 | 2010 | PDF | 504 pages | 12,2 MB
The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts.
Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated many a rare text, composed dictionaries, sent laudatory poems, and compiled the first chapters of a history of Germanic languages. This volume gathers recent research on this versatile philologist, and includes the first edition of many unpublished works and documents.
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