I have read that there were many Latin sources in use beyond Ovid and Virgil, including Latin translations of Greek texts, but I have not heard of manuals made for verse composition. My impression has been that people simply read classical authors and imitated their style as they attempted to master Latin composition, but I am no expert. Erasmus produced school texts; so did Melanchthon.
Dan Knauss At 10:34 AM 6/21/1999 -0500, you wrote: >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 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. >Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message >"unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You >can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > _____________________________________________ Dan Knauss - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dpknauss ICQ#41102114 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
