The introduction outlines Benci’s career and stresses his role as the founder of this vibrant new genre. This volume is the first one for a new subseries in the 'Jesuit Studies' series: 'Jesuit Neo-Latin Library'.

This collection of articles deals with the notion of Eros from a broad range of historical, literary and cultural perspectives.

The volume contains eleven contributions by specialists from eight countries. They show various possibilities to contextualize the material world and emotional behavior.

As such, they remained an integral component of the medical teaching curriculum well into the second millennium. This edition was originally published in 2006.

This edition reissue of Herbert Morris Bower’s beautiful verse translation, the only complete English version of the poem, is enriched by facing original text and extra end notes.

Shuger discovers an intimate connection between Cervantes's integration of this discourse of madness and his part in forging the new genre of the European novel.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.