Melanchthon’s Family Tree I did not know that Melanchthon was a relative of Johannes Reuchlin, ‘the first great exponent of Greek studies in Germany’ (Pfeiffer, vol. 2, p. 86). Continue Reading →
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 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 →
