Latin Treatises on Poetry from Renaissance England.Binns, J. W., ed. Latin Treatises on Poetry from Renaissance England. (The Library of Renaissance Humanism Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as humanism) was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the 14th century. Initially a humanist was simply a teacher of Latin literature. .) Signal Mountain, TN: Summertown Texts, 1999. xii + 224 pp. bibl, index. n.p. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 1-89300-903-5. Three formal Latin treatises on poetry, two Elizabethan and one Jacobean, valuable "for the insight which they provide into the position of poetry at the universities in Renaissance England," are translated and presented together in one modern edition. Original punctuation punctuation [Lat.,=point], the use of special signs in writing to clarify how words are used; the term also refers to the signs themselves. In every language, besides the sounds of the words that are strung together there are other features, such as tone, accent, and is retained in the facing page translations, but spelling is modernized, paragraphs are added to the two unparagraphed treatises, and original margin notes are transferred to footnotes. Each treatise A scholarly legal publication containing all the law relating to a particular area, such as Criminal Law or Land-Use Control. Lawyers commonly use treatises in order to review the law and update their knowledge of pertinent case decisions and statutes. is preceded by an introduction by the editor/translator. |
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