Open Accessvel non legi, vel saltuatim tantum
Author(s) -
János Nagyillés
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
antikvitás and reneszánsz
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2677-0903
pISSN - 2560-2659
DOI - 10.14232/antikren.2018.2.193-204
Subject(s) - poetry , latin americans , literature , latin poetry , classics , philosophy , art , linguistics
The Latin poems by Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar are not very well known. Their Christian author confessed in her Eukleria seu Meliores Partis Electio (Eucleria, or Choosing the Better Part) she had only read Greek and Latin authors who met the demands of serious Christian morals. Close lexical study of her Latin poems prove that she actually read some other Latin texts that were not suitable for her own high moral standards.