Gallus Reborn

Paul White is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on Latin poetry and its reception, with a particular focus on Renaissance humanism; publications include articles on poetry, education, authorship and print culture in Latin and vernacular contexts, and books on the early modern reception of Ovid’s Heroides (Columbus, 2009), and on the classical editions and commentaries of the Paris-based printer and author Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Oxford, 2013).

"Here is an interesting study, well written and well argued on the reception of Gaius Cornelius Gallus in the Renaissance. In the space of a concise but thorough book, Paul White sets out to explore the reasons for the influence of Gallus and his pseudepigraphs (the Elegies of Maximian and the Carmen ad Lydiam), the way in which Renaissance readers have transformed the character of Gallus, as well as the impact that figure and these poems have had on literary history." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review (translated from French)

• Introduction. ‘neget quis carmina Gallo?’Chapter 1. Six Elegies Ascribed to Cornelius Gallus: MaximianusChapter 2. The Reception of Gallus-MaximianusChapter 3. The Carmen ad Lydiam (‘Lydia bella puella candida’)Chapter 4. From senectus to amorChapter 5. Elegiacs Attributed to Gallus in 1588 (AL 914-917)Chapter 6. The Forger of the 1588 ElegiacsConclusionAppendix. Editiones principes of works ascribed to Gallus, or date of first attribution to Gallus in printBibliography