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How the sauce got to be better than the fish : scholarship and rivalry in Isaac Casaubon’s Studies of Ancient Satire
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De Smet, Ingrid (2019) How the sauce got to be better than the fish : scholarship and rivalry in Isaac Casaubon’s Studies of Ancient Satire. Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 4 (3). pp. 275-315. doi:10.1163/24055069-00403001 ISSN 2405-5069.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-00403001
Abstract
Isaac Casaubon’s 1605 Persius edition and its companion-piece, the De satyrica Graecorum poesi et Romanorum satira, likewise published in 1605, have long been considered milestones in the history of scholarship on Ancient satire. Marshalling evidence from humanist correspondences, annotated copies of early printed books, manuscripts and visual materials, this study offers a fresh and much fuller and more nuanced view of either book’s trajectory from concept to print and distribution, of the motivations and guiding principles behind Casaubon’s research, and, more generally, of scholarly endeavor around the turn of the seventeenth century. I demonstrate how Casaubon’s work on satire is linked to the humanist recovery of Ancient scholia, how its erudition integrates observations on the contemporary world and non-textual evidence, and how it is marked by fierce scholarly rivalry and – hitherto underestimated – confessional differences.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Erudition and the Republic of Letters | ||||||
| Publisher: | Brill | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2405-5069 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 28 June 2019 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 4 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 275-315 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1163/24055069-00403001 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 March 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 June 2021 | ||||||
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