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Revised and Expanded Edition of Lexique de la prose latine de la renaissance - Dictionary of Renaissance Latin from prose sources

This Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance is the first dictionary of Renaissance Latin and continues on from the Dictionnaire latin-français of F. Gaffiot. However, it comprises 8500 words, more than 7000 of which are not mentioned by Gaffiot, while others are employed with different meanings.
It is based upon a reading of a very large number of texts by 150 authors from Western and Central Europe, including Budé, Calvin, Erasmus, Ficino, Lipsius, Luther, Melanchthon, More, Petrarch, Pica della Mirandola, Politian, Valla, Vives, and Zwingli. The compiler has paid particular attention to variety in the source texts, which cover literature, correspondence, history, law, philosophy, theology, and science.
This work has been long awaited by scholars and students and will become a standard tool not only for latinists and neo-latinists, but also for all those historians, philosophers, theologians, historians of law, and intellectual historians working in the fields of Humanism, the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

This second edition includes substantial revisions and is expanded to 11,000 entries, covering 230 authors from the period 1350-1600.
The dictionary now gives English as well as French translations of a every Renaissance Latin term, with reference to context.
The coverage of genres is widened to include science and medicine, correspondence, travelogues, scholarly works, art, historiography, law, rheotoric, philosophy, theology, and translations from ancient Greek works. The Dictionary will also be available on CD-ROM.

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