In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Forwarded message from: Robin Sowerby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:42:40 +0100 > >I decided to make contact via the internet with other Virgilians because I >am rather isolated at my university where there is no classics department >and I have come up against a problem to which so far I have not been able to >find the answer. Part of my current project requires that I find evidence >for the teaching of Latin verse in grammar schools in the Renaissance and >beyond. Virgil and Ovid, then as now, must have been the main models for >neo-Latinists as they made their own verse compositions. I have browsed the >British Library catalogue and drawn a blank; I can find no manuals of verse >composition for the earlier period at all. This material must exist if I >knew the right place in which to look. Do you know of any scholars who might >be able to help me? > >- Robin Sowerby
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