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Rewriting the Virgilian Career: The Scaligers and the Appendix Vergiliana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2021

Sheldon Brammall
Sheldon Brammall*
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University of Birmingham
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Abstract

Renaissance scholars agreed that Virgil's canon included poems beyond the “Eclogues,” “Georgics,” and “Aeneid,” but the number of other authentic poems and their value were matters of debate. This article charts competing readings of the “Appendix Vergiliana” by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Joseph Justus Scaliger. Pseudo-Virgilian poems played a key role in J. C. Scaliger's “Poetices Libri Septem” (1561), providing a model of self-quotation and self-emulation for young poets to imitate. In a groundbreaking edition, J. J. Scaliger then discovers a neoteric, Catullan side to Virgil. Their influential readings of the “Appendix” offer radically revised conceptions of the Virgilian poetic career.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 74 , Issue 3 , Fall 2021 , pp. 763 - 801
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by the Renaissance Society of America

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Footnotes

I am grateful to the Leverhulme Trust, which supported the Early Career Fellowship during which my work on this article began. Colin Burrow, Anna-Maria Hartmann, and John O'Brien read and commented on early drafts of this article, and I am thankful for their recommendations. I have also benefited from suggestions from audiences at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the Virgil Society, the University of Zurich, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies.

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