Erasmus and the Renaissance Republic of Letters: Proceedings of a Conference to Mark the Centenary of the Publication of the First Volume of Erasmi ... Christi College, Oxford, 5-7 September 2006

496 Pages·2014·2.764 MB·English

by  Stephen Ryle (editor)

Erasmus and the
Renaissance Republic of Letters

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DISPUTATIO
Editorial Board
Dallas G. Denery II, Bowdoin College
Holly Johnson, Mississippi State University
Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University
Founding Editors
Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Richard Utz, Western Michigan University
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book.
Volume 24

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Erasmus and the
Renaissance Republic of Letters
Proceedings of a Conference to Mark the Centenary
of the Publication of the First Volume of Erasmi Epistolae
by P. S. Allen, Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
5–7 September 2006
Edited by
Stephen Ryle
Foreword by
Lisa Jardine

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Erasmus and the Renaissance republic of letters : proceedings of a conference to mark
the centenary of the publication of the first volume of Erasmi epistolae by P.S. Allen,
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 5-7 September 2006. -- (Disputatio ; 24)
1. Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536--Congresses.
2. Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536--Influence--Congresses.
3. Europe--Intellectual life--16th century--Congresses.
4. Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536--Correspondence--Congresses.
I. Series
II. Ryle, Stephen, editor.
III. Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford), 1869-1933 Erasmi epistlae.
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Contents
Illustrations ix
Foreword
LISA JARDINE xi
List of Abbreviations xvii
Introduction
STEPHEN RyLE 1
Section I. P. S. Allen and Current Erasmian Scholarship
Supplementunculum Allenianum: le début de l’ep. 2021 retrouvé
MICHEL MAGNIEN 11
Supplementa Alleniana: tentative de bilan et perspectives
CHRISTINE BéNéVENT 35
The Englishing of P. S. Allen
JAMES McCONICA 51
Section II. Erasmus and his Contemporaries
Julius, Erasmus, Hutten: A Dialogue in Three Voices
SILVANA SEIDEL MENCHI 63
Erasmus as Biographer of Thomas More and his Family
CLARE M. MURPHy† 85

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vi Contents
Les Lettres de Dirk Martens, imprimeur d’érasme
ALExANDRE VANAUTGAERDEN 105
The Erasmus-Vives Correspondence
CHARLES FANTAzzI 145
Erasmus and Capito: the Trajectory of a Friendship
ERIkA RUMMEL 159
La relation entre érasme et le duc Georges de Saxe au cours
des années1520: Réforme de l’église et engagement théologique
MARIE BARRAL-BARON 173
Section III. Literature and Philosophy
in the Renaissance Republic of Letters
Polidoro Virgili, Erasmo e la Respublica litteraria
ROMANO RUGGERI 189
Erasmus and Plagiarism
ARI WESSELING† 203
Indus elephantus haud curat culicem: érasme et Dolet (1528–38)
CATHERINE LANGLOIS-PézERET 215
Concorde et polémique dans les Colloques d’érasme
BéATRICE PéRIGOT† 235
The Erasmian Republic of Letters and its Discontents
HANAN yORAN 257
Enjeux de la traduction du grec en latin
dans la Respublica litteraria autour d’érasme
ISABELLE DIU 279
Two Models of Humanist Letter-writing:
Desiderius Erasmus and Justus Lipsius
JEANINE DE LANDTSHEER 297

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Contents vii
Section IV. Erasmus and his Spiritual Legacy
The Shaping of a Gospel: Further Reflections
on the Paraphrase on Luke
JANE E. PHILLIPS 327
Italian Humanist Predecessors of Erasmus’s
Encomium matrimonii of 1518
LETIzIA PANIzzA 343
Tranquillitas animi: Erasmus and the Quest
for Spiritual Reassurance, 1533–43
DOMINIC BAkER-SMITH 383
Joseph Hall, Thomas Fuller, and the
Erasmian Via Media in Early Stuart England
GREGORy DODDS 399
Section V. Erasmus and Literary Tradition
‘Nothing if not Critical’: G. E. B. Saintsbury,
Erasmus, and the History of (English) Literature
MARk VESSEy 427
List of Contributors 457
General Index 459
Index of the Works of Erasmus 469

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Illustrations
Michel Magnien
Annexe 1
Figure 1a, p. 27. Page de titre de l’éd. de 1528 (n° 2.) — Ars. 8° S. 11525 (1).
Figure 1b, p. 28. f. Aijr de l’éd. de 1528 (n° 2.) — Ars. 8° S. 11525 (1).
Annexe 2
Figure 2a, p. 29. Page de titre de l’éd. de 1529 (n° 3.) — BnF, Rés. x 2446.
Figure 2b, p. 30. f. Av de l’éd. de 1529 (n° 3.) — BnF, Rés. x 2446.
Figure 2c, p. 31. f. Aijr de l’éd. de 1529 (n° 3.) — BnF, Rés. x 2446.
Alexandre Vanautgaerden
Figure 3, p. 112. Erasmus, Familiarium colloquiorum formulae, et alia quaedam, per
Des. Erasmum Roterodamum (Basel: Froben, 1518), page de titre.
Figure 4, p. 113. Erasmus, Familiarium colloquiorum formulae, et alia quaedam per
Erasmum recognita (Louvain: Martens, 1519), page de titre.
Figure 5a, p. 114. Erasmus, Familiarium colloquiorum formulae, et alia quaedam,
per Des. Erasmum Roterodamum (Basel: Froben, 1518), page de titre.
Figure 5b, p. 114. Erasmus, Familiarium colloquiorum formulae, in gratiam iu­
ven tutis recognitae & auctae ab Erasmo Rotero. Et alia quaedam per eundem
autorem (Louvain: Martens, 1519), page de titre.

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