Selections from Conrad Celtis

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.