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A Neo-Latin Reader with selections from Petrarch to Rimbaud. With introductions, notes, sources, references and illustrations. "Neo Latin" is a rather clumsy designation for Latin written in the Renaissance and later. Latin students are rarely exposed to such writing, which is a pity because there is a whole world of highly worthwhile but often sadly neglected texts positively begging to be explored. Prof. Riley's Reader provides a fine introduction to this literature and is bound to open students' eyes to the wealth of material they can investigate, literary, historical and scientific...