The Neo-Latin Reader: : Selections from Petrarch to Rimbaud

A Neo-Latin Reader with selections from Petrarch to Rimbaud. With introductions notes sources references and illustrations.Neo Latin is a rather clumsy designation for Latin written in the Renaissance and later. Latin students are rarely exposed to such writing which is a pity because there is a whole world of highly worthwhile but often sadly neglected texts positively begging to be explored. Prof. Rileys Reader provides a fine introduction to this literature and is bound to open students eyes to the wealth of material they can investigate literary historical and scientific . . .