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Opening the Tomb:

“For fully two centuries the humanists acted as if Latin were, and must remain, the only language worthy to be written.” Their purified version of Latin spread beyond Italy to become the language of the nascent Republic of Letters all across Europe. But in time, the modernizing spirit that the Renaissance let loose came to see Latin itself as archaic and outmoded. Even as the Neo-Latinists were writing works they hoped would last forever, the modern European languages began to produce their own classics: Rabelais and Montaigne, Shakespeare and Cervantes. Today, it is these vernacular writers whom we read in order to taste the spirit of the Renaissance, and not Latin masters like Angelo Poliziano, Leonardo Bruni, and Leon Battista Alberti. The Neo-Latinists thought they were putting their works into a time capsule; in fact, it turned out to be a tomb."

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On Renaissance Latin Authors:

Polish Renaissance literature was essentially bilingual. Many writers, for example, Krzycki, Janiciusz, and Copernicus, wrote only in Latin. Some poets, most notably Kochanowski, Klonowic, and Szymonowic, used both Latin and Polish throughout their lives.

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Nobilitas Literaria

When the German humanist Crotus Rubeanus (1480-1545), known primarily as the co-author of the Epistolae obscurorum virorum, in 1521 wrote a report at the end of his brief rectorate of the university of Erfurt, he added a large picture. In the center of that colorful parchment he proudly had painted his family coat of arms, a hunting horn held by a hand, an allusion to his pre-humanist name "Jäger", that is hunter. This coat of arms is framed by 16 smaller coats of arms, of which the four somewhat larger one in the corners belong to Erasmus of Rotterdam, Martin Luther, Johannes Reuchlin and Mutianus Rufus, while the remaining twelve depict the heraldic signs of his personal friends: Ulrich von Hutten, Eobanus Hessus, Justus Jonas, Philipp Melanchthon, Johann Lang, Peter Eberbach, Forchemius (Georg Peltz aus Forchheim), Heinrich Urban or Urbanus, Andreas Carlstadt, Adam Kraft, Joachim Camerarius and Jodocus Menus. The document, preserved in the Municipal Archives of Erfurt, is remarkable for a number of reasons: first, next to the three leading heads of German Renaissance humanism of the time, Reuchlin, Mutian and Erasmus, Luther is added as the champion of the new cultural movement of humanism. Second, the inscriptions and mottoes are in the three holy languages the humanists thought essential for any humanist, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Thirdly, the iconographical lay-out points to the typical humanist form of a community, a "sodalitas" . And fourthly, and for our context most importantly, the very fact that Crotus had made these coats of arms is in itself remarkable. Coats of arms were after all were the privilege of the nobility. All of the persons depicted here through their heraldic signs, with the exception of Ulrich von Hutten, came from a bourgeois background, and some like Eobanus Hessus and Crotus himself from peasant stock. To be sure, nine years before, in 1512, Mutianus Rufus, the undisputed head of the Erfurt, or to be precise Gotha humanists, had created his own set of coats of arms for his friends Spalatinus, Crotus, Urbanus and Jonas, thus eliminating the stigma of the lack of coats of arms. Crotus's colorful drawing as well as Mutianus's earlier heraldic creations on behalf of his friends point to the claim of the humanists to belong to a nobilitas literaria, a nobility, to be sure, which derived its identity not through birth and privileges but through education and personal achievement and a shared interest in antiquity.

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To be entirely ignorant of the Latin language is like being in a fine country on a misty day. The horizon is extremely limited. Nothing can be seen clearly except that which is quite close; a few steps beyond, everything is buried in obscurity. But the Latinist has a wide view, embracing modern times, the Middle Age and Antiquity; and his mental horizon is still further enlarged if he studies Greek or even Sanscrit.

If a man knows no Latin, he belongs to the vulgar, even though he be a great virtuoso on the electrical machine and have the base of hydrofluoric acid in his crucible.

There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be it only for half an hour, and you will feel yourself refreshed, relieved, purified, ennobled, strengthened; just as if you had quenched your thirst at some pure spring. Is this the effect of the old language and its perfect expression, or is it the greatness of the minds whose works remain unharmed and unweakened by the lapse of a thousand years? Perhaps both together. But this I know. If the threatened calamity should ever come, and the ancient languages cease to be taught, a new literature shall arise, of such barbarous, shallow and worthless stuff as never was seen before.
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The abolition of Latin as the universal language of learned men, together with the rise of that provincialism which attaches to national literatures, has been a real misfortune for the cause of knowledge in Europe. For it was chiefly through the medium of the Latin language that a learned public existed in Europe at all -- a public to which every book as it came out directly appealed. The number of minds in the whole of Europe that are capable of thinking and judging is small, as it is; but when the audience is broken up and severed by differences of language, the good these minds can do is very much weakened. This is a great disadvantage; but a second and worse one will follow, namely, that the ancient languages will cease to be taught at all. The neglect of them is rapidly gaining ground in France and Germany.

If it should really come to this, then farewell, humanity! farewell, noble taste and high thinking! The age of barbarism will return, in spite of railways, telegraphs and balloons. We shall thus in the end lose one more advantage possessed by all our ancestors. For Latin is not only a key to the knowledge of Roman antiquity; it also directly opens up to us the Middle Age in every country in Europe, and modern times as well, down to about the year 1750.
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"Francesco Petrarca would have been surprised at how it all turned out. In the end he acquired--as he had hoped--a fame that far outlived his time. But it happened not at all in the way he expected. The great scholar-poet (1304-1374) was already, it is true, famous in his own day as a writer of passionate love lyrics in Italian. There were few educated Italians of the fourteenth century who did not know his Canzoniere (Book of Songs). Yet Petrarch himself believed that the fame he had won from his intricately wrought sonnets and canzoni could not long survive. The private title he gave his Canzoniere--significantly, a Latin title--was Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, which means something like "Bits of Stuff in the Vulgar Tongue." This rather dismissive title shows, in effect, what Petrarch the Latin author thought of Petrarch the volgare poet. Petrarch the Latin author never dreamed that the canonical status he would one day enjoy would come not from his Latin epic, the Africa, or from his numerous other Latin writings, but from those little "bits of stuff." True, universal, eternal fame, he was sure, could come only from works written in the eternal tongue of the ancient Romans. That is why the greatest Italian poet of his time spent the better part of his career writing in a language that, today, hardly anyone reads." (i Tatti Library)

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On Renaissance Latin and the Great Latin Revivial after Petrarch:

"Recovering the classics was only the beginning. Ancient Latin literature could not truly be said to be alive once more until modern writers were able to capture their own experience in that incomparable vehicle of thought and feeling that is the Latin language. To create the conditions for a modern Latin literary movement was the task of the humanist schoolmaster. Practice in Latin composition began in grammar school, with exercises in imitation of the best authors. Increased mastery led sometimes, in the case of a Poliziano or an Erasmus, to the emergence of a flexible, distinctive voice that, while still "classical" in grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, was recognizably individual. More commonly it led to facility in sub-Ciceronian prose, the mandarin discourse of the time, or an ability to turn out smooth Ovidian hexameters for all occasions. In the greatest artists it led to aemulatio, the attempt to rival and even surpass the ancients in power, precision, and beauty of expression." i Tatti Library

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"Petrarch longed to master the language the ancient Romans had spoken: copious, precise, lapidary; grave and elegant by turns. Latin had once been an imperial language, a language of timeless beauty, spoken by beings of superior wisdom and virtue. It was a language bursting with potency, able to fire cold hearts and elevate base spirits. That language was now lost. If, as Petrarch and his followers hoped, the strength and civilization of the ancient Romans could have a second birth, that Renaissance would have to begin with a rebirth of the Latin language. A renewal of the ancestral language and literature of Italy was the key to the return of her ancient greatness.

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