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Scholarship

History of Classical Scholarship, methodology, bibliography, polemics, reviews, &c.

There are 48 posts filed in Scholarship (this is page 10 of 16).

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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

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Eric in Scholarship | June 30, 2009 | 240 Words

Kitchen Latin

R. Pfeiffer writes the following on the origin of such terms as ‘kitchen Latin’ in the context of the dispute between Lorenzo Valla and Poggio Bra

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Eric in Scholarship | June 29, 2009 | 190 Words

On the Origin of ‘Humanism’

I’ve been reading the second volume of R. Pfeiffer’s History of Classical Scholarship (which covers 1300-1850) and thought this was interesting (in hi

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Eric in Scholarship | June 25, 2009 | 186 Words

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