Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.
Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.
Yasmin Haskell has been Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia, Perth, since 2003. She is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council's new Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. She is the author of Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry (2003) and winner of the British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs Competition.
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Cultivating the Two Apollos I. Finding his Feet: Six or Five? II. Stepping Out: Healing the Republic of Letters III. Tomi Calling: Letters to/from Italy IV. Writing Home: Lessons from Italy V. Patriots in Portraits: From National to Natural History VI. Inscriptions and Prescriptions: The Art of Healing in Long and Short Conclusion: Notes from the Margins Appendix: Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens Bibliography Index
List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Cultivating the Two Apollos I. Finding his Feet: Six or Five? II. Stepping Out: Healing the Republic of Letters III. Tomi Calling: Letters to/from Italy IV. Writing Home: Lessons from Italy V. Patriots in Portraits: From National to Natural History VI. Inscriptions and Prescriptions: The Art of Healing in Long and Short Conclusion: Notes from the Margins Appendix: Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens Bibliography Index
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