List of contributors Preface INTRODUCTION (Lucy R. Nicholas, King's College London, UK and William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria) 1 European Neo-Latin and its development 2 Neo-Latin as a literary medium 3 Neo-Latin literature and its genres 4 Aims and coverage of this volume 5 Latin texts: sources and conventions 6 Bibliography TEXTS 1 A pastoral exchange on the treatment of poetry Battista Spagnoli Mantovano (1447-1516), Adolescentia 5.1-23, 68-91, 111-25 (Bobby Xinyue, University of Warwick, UK) 2 The pierced ear: divine revelation and impregnation Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530), De partu Virginis, extracts from Book 1 (Lucy R. Nicholas, King's College London, UK) 3 The abbot and the learned woman Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Colloquia (Abbatis et Eruditae) (Astrid Khoo, Harvard University, USA) 4 Christopher Columbus' first voyage Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Rerum Venetarum historiae libri, extracts from 6.1-3 (Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA) 5 Morbid measures and contaminated airs: the poetics of pox Girolamo Fracastoro (1476/8-1553), Syphilis sive de morbo Gallico, extracts (Gareth Williams, Columbia University, USA) 6 A Protestant on the attack in Latin Martin Luther (1483-1546), De abroganda missa privata (Lucy R. Nicholas, King's College London, UK) 7 Greeting Charles at Bordeaux George Buchanan (1506-1582), Silvae 1 (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 8 Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum (1515-1519), Letter 1.37: The converted Jew and his foreskin (Daniel Hadas, King's College London, UK) 9 The pleasures of the hills Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati, pp. 47-9 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria) 10 Neo-Latin love elegy Joachim Du Bellay (c. 1522-1560), selection from Amores (1558) (Paul White, University of Leeds, UK) 11 A Jesuit encounter with an Indian Yogi Francesco Benci (1542-1594), Quinque martyres 5.96-132 (Paul Gwynne, The American University of Rome, Italy) 12 Mary, liturgy and missions Francisco Enzinas' Correspondence with Robert Bellarmine (1605-1607) (Jan Machielsen, Cardiff University, UK) 13 Seneca's death dramatized Matthew Gwinne (1558-1627), Nero: Nova Tragaedia (1603), Act 5, Scene 6 (Emma Buckley, St Andrews University, UK) 14 Virgilian commentary Juan Luis de la Cerda (1558/60-1643), on Aeneas' first appearance in the Aeneid (Fiachra Mac Gorain, University College London, UK) 15 Vitalist philosophy from a long lost author Anne Conway (1631-1679), Principia philosophiae antiquissimae & recentissimae, excerpts from Chapter VII (Laurynas Adomaitis, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy) 16 A new approach to studying old documents Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), De re diplomatica, extracts (Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 17 Newton on theology Isaac Newton (1642-1727), theological section from the General Scholium to the Principia mathematica (Pablo Toribio, Spanish National Research Council, Spain) 18 Damnation and divine justice Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Confessio philosophi, extract (Lucy Sheaf, King's College London, UK) 19 A school play Gottlob Krantz (1660-1733), Memorabilia Bibliothecae ...Wratislaviensis, excerpts from Acts I and IV (Jacqueline Glomski, University College London, UK) Index