Vergil in the Mass Domenico Comparetti, in Vergil in the Middle Ages, relates a fascinating anecdote about the spiritual Nachleben (or wistful longing after same) of Ver
Gandhi on the utility of Latin Gandhi, writing in his autobiography about his time in England and his efforts to pursue literary studies in addition to law, opted for the London Mat Continue Reading →
Politian and the Editing of Callimachus More from Pfeiffer, on the learned Angelo Ambrogini (i.e., Poliziano), who was tutor to the children of Lorenzo the Magnificent and lecture on Latin a Continue Reading →