The Economics of Poetry

CONTENTS: Bernhard Schirg/Paul Gwynne: The «Economics of Poetry»: Fast Production as a Crucial Skill in Neo-Latin Encomiastic Poetry - Susanna De Beer: Reuse, Repeat, Recycle! An Intra-textual Approach to the Economics of Poetry - Christian Peters: Bella novabo: Basinio da Parma's Instant Epics - Antonietta Iacono: L'officina di un poeta del Quattrocento: La tecnica del riuso nella produzione poetica di Porcelio de' Pandoni - Giuseppe Germano: Revisione strutturale come tecnica economica: Le due redazioni della raccolta poetica di Manilio Cabacio Rallo dal codice Berlin, Hamilton 561 all'editio princeps napoletana del 1520 (Iuueniles ingenii lusus) - Bernhard Schirg: Spamming the Duke's Council, or: How to Cold-Call Milanese Patricians as a Poet under Sforza Rule - Donatella Manzoli: I centoni rinascimentali di Lelio Capilupi: Un caso di Poetry in Economics? - Maria Teresa Galli: Reuse and Economy in Cento Poetry - George Hugo Tucker: Horatian Pyrotechnics in the Latin Verse-Cento: Rapid Response to the Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, 5 November 1605 - Paul Gwynne: The Economics of Epic: Francesco Benci, Quinque martyres, Epic or Cento? - Keith Sidwell: Short Cuts, or: How to Finish an Epic When You Hear Your Patron Is Dying: The Ormonius of the Irishman Dermot O'Meara (1615) - Elizabeth Sandis: Playing Virgil at Short Notice: Oxford University Entertains a Special Guest with William Gager's Dido in 1583 - Akihiko Watanabe: Outdoing the Original? The Economics of Early Modern Japanese Latin Poetry - Elena Dahlberg: String Your Lyre Promptly: Magnus Rönnow's Latin Poetry from the Great Northern War as Literary News Reports.

Paul Gwynne obtained his doctorate from the Warburg Institute at the University of London. For the last twenty years he has lived and worked in Rome, where he is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the American University of Rome. Bernhard Schirg obtained his doctorate from the Department of Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen. He is currently working as a researcher and project leader at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt. His research profile reflects the interdisciplinary potential of the growing field of Neo-Latin studies, comprising Renaissance poetry, emblematics, art history and the history of science.