Neo-Latin Anthology

Purpose of the Anthology

The SNLS has produced this anthology for the use of readers and teachers of Latin everywhere. It includes drama, prose, epigram, epic, pastoral, satire, elegy and panegyric texts composed between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries. The anthology incorporates texts of varying levels of difficulty, so that individuals can select texts according to their own research and teaching interests. First published online in 2009, the anthology has been fully updated in 2025.

Introduction to the Anthology

Editorial Guidelines

List of Contributors

Pre-1500

Giovanni Pontano

Sixteenth-Century Texts

• Jodocus Badius Ascensius
• George Buchanan and Arthur Johnston
• Thomas Campion
• Thomas Neale
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
• Francesco Sperulo
• Orlandus Lassus
• Gallus Dressler

Seventeenth-Century Texts

• Jacob Bidermann
• Robert Burton
• Abraham Cowley
• John Lynch
• John Milton

Post-1700

• Anthony Alsop
• Johannes Alexander Gaertner 
• Walter Savage Landor