Over the summer vacation, please have a look at the following two books:

C. HIGHET, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman influences on the Western World, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949.

E. R. CURTIUS, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, Pinceton: Princeton University Press, 1953.

Although dated they remain works of reference for the study of the reception of Antiquity and will give you a fair idea of the material covered in Term 1.

Familiarise yourself with the following tool:

A. Grafton et al. (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
You can use the following bibliography for your essays. Note that the list is not exhaustive and that you are expected to look for additional sources (if relevant) in the Library catalogue and online scholarly resources.

‘Receptions Studies’ and ‘Classical Tradition’

-C. Caruso and A. Laird, Italy and the Classical Tradition, London 2009.
-A. Grafton et al., The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass., 2010.
-L. Hardwick and C. Stray, A Companion to Classical Receptions, Oxford 2008.
-C. Highet, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on the Western World, Oxford 1949, pp. 104-126 (The Renaissance: Translation).
-L. Hardwick, Receptions Studies, Oxford 2003, Chapter 1 (From the Classical Tradition to Reception Studies).
-C. Kallendorf, A Companion to the Classical Tradition, Oxford 2007, Chapter 1 (‘Introduction’), Chapter 20 (‘Reception’).
-C. Martindale, Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception, Cambridge 1993, Chapter 1.
-S. L. Schein, ‘Our Debt to Greece and Rome’: Canon, Class and Ideology, in L. Hardwick and C. Stray, A Companion to Classical Receptions, Oxford, 2008, pp. 75-85.
-A. Warburg, The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, London 1999, Introduction.

General Bibliography on Humanism and Renaissance

Entries ‘Humanism’ and ‘Renaissance’ in The Classical Tradition, ed. by A. Grafton et al., Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.

- R. Black, Renaissance Thought. A Reader (London: Routledge, 2001) [Key articles on ‘The Renaissance’ by Anglo-Saxon scholars. Several important articles by Kristeller, one of the founding fathers of Renaissance studies]
- C. Celenza, The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians and Latin’s Legacy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
- R. Fubini, Humanism and secularization: from Petrarch to Valla, translated by Martha King (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003)
- E. Garin, Italian Humanism: Philosophy and Civic Life in the Renaissance, translated by Peter Munz (Wesport, Conn: Greenwood, 1975) [Excellent work by the second founding father of Renaissance studies]
- P. Godman, From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998) [a good synthesis]
- Cr. Kallendorf, A Companion to the Classical Tradition, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.
- J. Kraye, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
- A. Mazzocco (ed.), Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism (Leiden: Brill, 2006)
- M. McLaughlin, ‘Humanist Concepts of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages’, Renaissance Studies 2 (1988), 131-142.
- N. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy. Greek studies in the Italian Renaissance (London: Duckworth, 1992) [excellent account of the revival of Greek culture in 15th-century Italy]
- R. B. Witt, In the Footsteps of the Ancients: the Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (Leiden: Brill, 2000)

Boethius

-A. Grafton et al., The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, entry ‘Boethius’

-R. Black, Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century, Chapter 4.
-H. Chadwick, Boethius: the Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy, Oxford, 1981, Chapter 5.
-E. R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, Princeton, 19903, Chapters 1-2.
-C. W. Kallendorf, A Companion to the Classical Tradition, Oxford, 2010, Chapter 2 (Middle Ages).
-J. Marenbon, The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, Cambridge-New York, 2009, Chapter 10.
-C. Moreschini, A Christian in Toga. Boethius, Interpreter of Antiquity and Christian Theologian, Göttingen, 2014.
-L. D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes & Scholars. A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, Oxford, 19993, Chapters 1-3.

Dante

-A. Grafton et al. (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, entry ‘Dante Alighieri’

-T. Barolini, Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the Comedy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
-Ead., The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
-R. Lansing (ed.), Dante: The Critical Complex. Volume 2: Dante and Classical Antiquity: The Epic Tradition, New York-London, 2003.
-Z. G. Barański and L. Pertile (eds.), Dante in Context, Cambridge, 2015.

-A. Laird, ‘Reinventing Virgil’s Wheel: The poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch’, in Ph. Hardie and H. Moore (eds), Classical Literary Careers and their Reception, Cambridge: CUP, 2010, pp. 138-159.
-J. A. Scott, Understanding Dante, Notre Dame, 2004.
-C. Martingale (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, Cambridge, 1997, Chapter 6.

Petrarch

-A. Grafton et al. (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, entries “Petrarch” and “Letters and Epistolography”

- M. E. Cosenza, Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1910 (http://warburg-archive.sas.ac.uk/pdf/enh202b2446920.pdf)

-G. Burton, “From Ars dictaminis to Ars conscribendi epistolis: Renaissance Letter-Writing Manuals in the Context of Humanism”, in Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present, ed. by C. Poster and L. C. Mitchell, Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2007, pp. 88-101.
-G. Burton, “Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity”, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 35 (2005), pp. 509-536.
-F. Ciccolella, Donati Graeci: Learning Greek in the Renaissance, Leiden: Brill, 2008.
-G. Billanovich, “Petrarch and the Textual Tradition of Livy”, The Journal of Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 14, No. 3/4 (1951), pp. 137-208.
-Chr. S. Celenza, Christopher, The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
-K. Eden, The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy, Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2012.
-C. W. Kallendorf, A Companion to the Classical Tradition. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.
-C. W. Kallendorf, In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideictic Rhetoric in the Early Italian Renaissance, Hanover and London: University of New England, 1989.
-C. W. Kallendorf, The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.
-C. W. Kallendorf, Virgil in Renaissance Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014-. [online bibliography]
-A. Laird, ‘Reinventing Virgil’s Wheel: The poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch’, in Ph. Hardie and H. Moore (eds), Classical Literary Careers and their Reception, Cambridge: CUP, 2010, pp. 138-159.
-M. Lorch, “Petrarch, Cicero, and the Classical Pagan Tradition”, in Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms, and Legacy. Vol. 1, Humanism in Italy, edited by A. Rabil, Jr., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, pp. 71-94.
-G. Mazzotta, “Petrarch’s Epistolary Epic”, in Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, edited by V. Kirkham and A. Maggi, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 309-319.
-Th. Mommsen, Theodor, “Petrarch’s Conception of the ‘Dark Ages’”, Speculum, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr., 1942), pp. 226-242.
-C. E. Quillen, Carol, Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998.
-Ch. E. Trinkaus, The Poet as Philosopher: Petrarch and the Formation of Renaissance Consciousness, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
-P. White, Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2010.
-B. L. Ullman, Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Rome: Storia e letteratura, 1973.
-D. S. Wilson-Okamura, Virgil in the Renaissance, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- R. G. Witt, In the Footsteps of the Ancient’: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni, Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Bessarion and Ficino

A. Grafton et al. (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010, entries ‘Bessarion’, ‘Ficino’, ‘Immortality of the Soul’, ‘Paganism’

-C. Celenza, The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians and Latin’s Legacy, Baltimore, 2004, Chapter 4.
-J. Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance, Leiden-New York, 1990, Part IV.
-J. Hankins, Renaissance Platonism, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig, London-New York, 1998, VIII, pp. 439-447.
-E. F. Rice, Jr., The Renaissance Idea of Christian Antiquity: Humanistic Patristic Scholarship, in A. Rabil, Jr. (ed.), Renaissance Humanism. Foundations, Forms, and Legacy. Volume 1: Humanism in Italy, Philadelphia, 1988, pp. 17-28.
-H. D. Saffrey, 1492: The Reappearance of Plotinus, Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996), pp. 488-508 available online through JSTOR or http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Florence,+1492%3A+the+reappearance+of+Plotinus-a018881387)
-C. Trinkaus, In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought, Notre Dame, Ind., 1995, Chapters 12, 14 and 15.
-D. P. Walker, The Ancient Theology: Studies in Christian Platonism from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, London, 1972, Introduction and Chapter 1.
-N. G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy, London, 2014.
-E. Wind, Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, London, 1958, Introduction.

Myth of Rome and Pope as Caesar

-Anthony Grafton et al. (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, entries ‘Caesar [Political Title]’, ‘Rome’, ‘Ruins’

-Leonard Barkan, Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1999): Chapter 1.
-Tamara Smithers, ‘“SPQR/CAPITOLIVM RESTITVIT”: The Renovatio of the Campidoglio and Michaelangelo’s Use of the Giant Order’, in Gregory Smith and Jan Gardeyne (eds.), Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 157-186.
-Charles Stinger, The Renaissance in Rome (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), Chapter IV.

The Laocoon and Sadoleto

-A. Grafton et al. (eds.), The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, entry ‘Laocoon’

-M. Bieber, Laocoon: The Influence of the Group since its Rediscovery, New York, 1942.
-R. M. Douglas, Jacopo Sadoleto, Humanist and Reformer, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.
-N. E. Land, The Viewer as Poet: the Renaissance Response to Art, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
-Fr. Lucioli, Jacopo Sadoleto umanista e poeta, Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2014, pp. 64-75 [in Italian]
-Phyllis Pray Bober and Ruth Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, London-Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2010 [Entry ‘Laocoon’]
-L. Barkan, Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1999.
-M. Baxandall, Words for Pictures: Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
-R. Brilliant, My Laocoon: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks, Berkeley, 2000.
-Fr. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1981.
-A. Payne et al. (eds.), Antiquity and Its Interpreters, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
-C. Stinger, The Renaissance in Rome, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Winckelmann and Warburg

-Anthony Grafton et al. (eds.), The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, Mass., 2010, entries ‘Warburg’ and ‘Winckelmann’

-W. Davis, Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History

-K. Harloe, Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
-E. Wind, Warburg's Concept of Kulturwissenschaft and Its Meaning for Aesthetics, in -Donald Preziosi (ed.), The Art of Art History : A Critical Anthology: A Critical Anthology, Oxford, 2009.
-Edgar Wind, Warburg’s Concept of Kulturwissenschaft and its Meaning for Aesthetics
-A. Warburg, The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, London 1999