Selections from Conrad Celtis
1459–1508

A 1948 text and translation of the works of Conrad Celtis, the Humanist, who wrote in Latin.

Leonard Forster (Edited and translated by)

9781107601826, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 November 2011

142 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.8 cm, 0.19 kg

This volume was originally published in 1948. Students of sixteenth-century Germany and its literature, in need of a text and translation of the works of Conrad Celtis, the Humanist, who wrote in Latin, will find it in Mr Forster's selection. Latin literature was in some respects a generation ahead of the vernaculars. It is in Latin that the big changes first become apparent. But in present-day education the tendency away from Latin makes it difficult for students to study this as it ought to be studied. Mr Forster, judging by his lecture-room experience, believes that there is a need and a way to remedy this difficulty. He has selected texts from Celtis to illustrate tendencies in humanist thought, writing a commentary upon each, and adding a literal translation.

Preface
Description of plates
Introduction
Select bibliography
Part I. Texts and Translations: 1. Ad Apollinem Repertorem Poetices ut ab Italis ad Germanos veniat
2. Ad Vilhelmum Mommerlochum Civem Coloniensem et Philosophum
3. Ad Sepulum Disdaemonem
4. De Nocte et Osculo Hasilinae, erotice
5. Ad Sigismumdum Fusilium Vratislaviensem: de his quod futurus philosophus scire debeat
6. Eppigrammata
7. Oratio in Gymnasio in Ingelstadio publice recitata
Part II. Commentary: 8. Ad Apollinem
9. Ad Vilhelmum Mommerlochum
10. Ad Sepulum Disdaemonem
11. De Nocte et Osculo Hasilinae
12. Ad Sigismumdum Fusilium Vratislaviensem
13. Epigrammata
14. Oratio
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]