Note: much of the important bibliography is in languages other than English. For additional references on specific points see the bibliography in Gaisser (1993).
For the medieval and early Renaissance transmission of Catullus, see Ullman (1960) and Thomson (1997: 22-43); both discuss the important role played by the Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406), who commissioned and annotated R. In an important unpublished dissertation McKie (1977) discusses the relation of Vand its descendants, postulating a lost intermediary (called A by Thomson) between Vand O and X (the lost parent of G and R). The place of V’s discovery is disputed. Guido Billanovich (1958: 155-70, 191-9) called Benvenuto’s epigram a ‘‘fairy tale,’’ arguing that Vwas discovered in Verona in the thirteenth century and read by the Paduan poets Lovato Lovati (d. 1309) and Alberto Mussato (d. 1329). As Butrica (this volume, pp. 24-5) remarks, Ullman (1960) was skeptical about the idea and Ludwig convincingly refuted it (Ludwig 1986), but it still occasionally surfaces. Citations of Catullus by Geremia da Montangone (ca. 1315?) are discussed by Ullman (1955); McKie uses them to demonstrate the existence of A (McKie 1977: 80-93). Citations by Benzo of Alessandria (ca. 1320) are discussed by Hale (1910). Petrarch’s use of Catullus is treated by Ellis (1905) and Ullman (1960). Bosco (1942) lists Petrarch’s quotations.
Important theoretical discussions relevant to imitation both by Martial and by the Renaissance poets include Conte (1986), Pigman (1980) and especially Pasquali 1951) and T. M. Greene (1980: 4-80). Ludwig’s treatment of Pontano’s imitations (Ludwig 1989: 162-94) was the starting point of the subsequent discussions. Recently the topic has been treated more fully in a collection of essays (Baier 2003). The anthologies of Nichols (1979) and Perosa and Sparrow (1979) provide excellent starting points for texts and biographies of the Neo-Latin poets.
Several recent studies have treated the Catullan lectures of Pierio Valeriano. See especially Di Stephano (2001) and Campanelli and Pincelli (2000).
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