Habent Sua Fata Libelli: Studies in Book History, the Classical Tradition, and Humanism in Honor of Craig Kallendorf

Habent sua fata libelli honors the work of Craig Kallendorf, offering studies in several fields in which he chiefly distinguished himself: the history of the book and reading, the classical tradition and reception studies, Renaissance humanism, and Virgilian scholarship with a special focus on the creative transformation of the Aeneid through the centuries. The volume is rounded out by an appreciation of Craig Kallendorf, including a review of his scholarship and its significance.

In addition to the topics mentioned above, the volume’s twenty-five contributions are of relevance to those working in the fields of classical philology, Neo-Latin, political philosophy, poetry and poetics, printing and print culture, Romance languages, art history, translation studies, and Renaissance and early modern Europe generally.

Contributors: Alessandro Barchiesi, Susanna Braund, Hélène Casanova-Robin, Jean-Louis Charlet, Federica Ciccolella, Ingrid De Smet, Margaret Ezell, Edoardo Fumagalli, Julia Gaisser, Lucia Gualdo Rosa, James Hankins, Andrew Laird, Marc Laureys, John Monfasani, Timothy Moore, Colette Nativel, Marianne Pade, Lisa Pon, Wayne Rebhorn, Alden Smith, Sarah Spence, Fabio Stok, Richard Thomas, and Marino Zorzi.

Steven M. Oberhelman (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981), is Associate Dean and Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University. The author or editor of eleven books, his latest book is Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020).

Giancarlo Abbamonte (Ph.D., University of Salerno, Italy, 1995), teaches Classical Philology at the Federico II University of Naples. His research focuses on classical reception, commentaries and lexicography. He has co-edited Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae and Iacopo d’Angelo’s Latin translations of Plutarch.

Patrick Baker (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2009), teaches History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is the author of Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) and has edited several volumes on historiography, biography, and classical reception (two with Brill).