Catullus

This is the first general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. After a brief introduction tracing the transmission of the poet from antiquity to the middle of the fifteenth century, the book follows his reception and interpretation by editors, commentators, university lecturers, and poets from the first edition (1472) through the sixteenth century. The focus is on Catullus but also on his Renaissance readers. Their text and interpretations not only influenced the ways in which later generations (including our own) would read the poet, but also provide windows into their own intellectual and historical worlds, which include Poliziano's Florence, Rome under the Medici Pope Leo X and his puritanical successor Adrian VI, the Paris of Ronsard and Marc-Antoine de Muret, post-Tridentine Rome, and sixteenth-century Leiden - as well as fifteenth-century Verona, where Catullus was an object of patriotic veneration, and Pontano's Naples, where poets learned to read and imitate him through Martial's imitations.

Julia Haig Gaisser is Research Professor in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College.

Introduction: Themes in Catullan Criticism (c.1950-2000), Julia Haig GaisserCatullus and his BooksCatullus, c. 1, Frank CopleyCatullus 116, C. W. MacleodMetrical Variations and Some Textual Problems in Catullus, Otto SkutschCatulli Veronensis Liber, Wendell ClausenThe Collection, T. P. WisemanNew Criticism and Catullus' SapphicsCatullan `Otiosi': The Lover and the Poet, Charles SegalCatullus 11: The Ironies of Integrity, Michael C. J. PuttnamNeoteric PoeticsThe Neoteric Poets, R. O. A. M. LyneThe Neoteric Elegiacs and the Epigrams Proper, David O. Ross, Jr.Allusion and IntertextPoetic Memory and the Art of Allusion, Gian Biagio ContePoem 101, Giuseppe Gilberto BiondiCatullus, Ennius, and the Poetics of Allusion, James E. G. ZetzelThreads in the Labyrinth: Competing Views and Voices in Catullus 64, Julia Haig GaisserObscenity and InvectiveObscenity in Catullus, Donald LateinerCatullus and the Art of Crudity, Amy RichlinDebating the SparrowHow the Sparrow of Catullus is to be Understood, and a Passage Pointed out in Martial, Angelo PolizianoThe Flea and the Sparrow, Jacopo SannazaroO factum male! O miselle passer!, Pierio ValerianoAnimal Imagery and the Sparrow, J. N. AdamsIn Defence of Catullus' Dirty Sparrow, Richard W. HooperRoman RealitiesA World Not Ours, T. P. WisemanCatullus XLII, Eduard FraenkelFriendship, Politics, and Literature in Catullus: Poems 1, 65 and 66, 116, W. Jeffrey TatumNon inter nota sepulchra: Catullus 101 and Roman Funerary Ritual, Andrew FeldherrThe Lens of Theory`Shall I compare thee . . .?': Catullus 68B and the Limits of Analogy, Denis FeeneyEgo mulier: The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus, Marilyn B. SkinnerSappho 31 and Catullus 51: The Dialogism of Lyric, Paul Allen MillerCeveat lector: Catullus and the Rhetoric of Performance, Daniel Selden