The Virgilian tradition : book history and the history of reading in early modern Europe / Craig Kallendorf.

Includes indexes.

Philology, the reader and the Nachleben of classical texts -- Marginalia and the rise of early modern subjectivity -- The rhetorical criticism of literature in early Italian humanism from Boccaccio to Landino -- Virgil's post-classical legacy -- Proverbs, censors, and schools : neo-Latin studies and book history -- The Virgilian title page as interpretive frame; or, through the looking glass -- The Aeneid transformed : illustration as interpretation from the Renaissance to the present -- In search of a patron : Anguillara's vernacular Virgil and the print culture of Renaissance Italy -- In the margins of Virgil : Venetian Renaissance books in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and their early readers -- Cristoforo Landino, Andrea Tordi, and the reading practices of Renaissance humanism -- Virgil, Dante, and empire in Italian thought, 1300-1500 -- Inclyta Aeneis : a sixteenth-century neo-Latin tragicomedy -- Ascensius, Landino, and Virgil : continuity and transformation in Renaissance commentary -- Aeneas and the 'new world' : Stella's Columbeis and Virgilian pessimism.