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Neo-Latin is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and then across northern Europe after about 1500, as a key feature of the humanist movement.
Jun 25, 2015 · By “Neo-Latin,” we mean the Latin language and literature from around the time of the early Italian humanist Petrarch (1304–1374) up until the present day, focusing particularly on its period of greatest intellectual and social relevance from the fifteenth until the eighteenth centuries.
Oct 28, 2014 · Neo-Latin literature is a vast field, covering Latin texts written in an intentionally classical style in both verse and prose across at least four centuries and the whole of Europe, as well as parts of Asia and the New World, by countless authors and in an enormous variety of genres.
The introduction first discusses the origin, significance, and implications of the term “Neo-Latin,” focussing on issues of chronological extent (the Neo-Latin “period”), stylistic ambition (Neo-Latin vs. “medieval” and “scholastic” Latin), and cultural impact (Neo-Latin as an intellectual foundation of the early modern world).
Preview. [The Table of Contents is listed below.] Recent years have witnessed a sudden surge in the number of works whose purpose it is to offer readers a reference work for and introduction to Neo-Latin studies.
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
The Neo-Latin Lexicon is the home of the largest repository Neo-Latin vocabulary culled from literary sources. The Lexicon supports the work of scholars of Medieval, Renaissance, and Contemporary Latin and provides a unique tool for students, instructors and practitioners of active Latin.
