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Gilbert Tournoy and Dirk Sacré, eds., Ut granum sinapis: Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Jozef IJsewijn, Leuven UP, 1997 (Supplementa Humanística Lovaniensia, XII), ? + 362??., ISBN 906186-816-5.
This collection of essays is a mark of honor to professor Jozef IJsewijn, who, among many other things, is the founder of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae at Louvain (1966) and of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (1973, after the first congress of Neo-Latin studies had taken place in Louvain in 1971), and whom one of the contributors to this volume justly calls the leading Neo-Latinist of our century. The volume contains nineteen studies by foreign colleagues of Professor IJsewijn, and offers a cross section of modern research in the field of humanist Latin and the culture of humanism in Renaissance Europe. Eleven studies focus on humanism north of the Alps, covering the period from the fifteenth until the end of the seventeenth centuries, while the remaining eight deal with Italian humanism of the Quattrocento and, in one case, the Cinquecento. Although the contributions vary widely in length, character and scope, each one is worthwhile and interesting in its own right.
Two essays deal with topics belonging to the field of codicology and the history of printing. Joseph B. Trapp (39-52) describes the illustrations in four fifteenth-century manuscripts of Petrarch's Secretum. Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen compares the title woodcut of the edit io princeps of Thomas More's Utopia (1516) with the title woodcut of the third edition, printed by J. Froben in Basel (1518). Jan Öberg (24-38) offers a brief contribution to the history of Swedish humanism. He delineates the career of Kort Rogge (c. 1420-1 501), a Swedish doctor in canon law, who studied for five years at the university of Perugia; the course of Rogge's career after his return to his native country provides some insight in the reception of Italian humanism in fifteenth-century Sweden. In an appendix, Öberg prints...