부산대학교 도서관

Just over a decade following the publication of his thorough and fundamental Orazio nella letteratura italiana: Commentatori, traduttori, editori italiani di Quinto Orazio Flacco dal XV al XVIII secolo (Rome, Vecchiarelli Editore, 2004), Antonio Iurilli’s new Quinto Orazio Flacco: annali delle edizioni a stampa, secoli xv–xviii, expands his clear and comprehensive approach from Italy to the whole of Europe and beyond, a geographic reach whose details are clear from his valuable index of places of publication (II 1373–1400). Iurilli’s study is a model for future bibliographic history. It begins with a robust, nuanced, and engaging history of the printing of Horace; at three-hundred pages, it would have made an excellent book in its own right. This “Introduction” illuminates countless corners of Horatian publishing history, placing each edition to which it draws attention into its own local (and colourful) context, from the “ghost” editions of Horace in the 15th century, in which Horace the lyric poet seems to emerge from his slumber and return as “a polysemic Horace” (I 19), through a trans-historical treatment of the vexata quaestio over the disorder of the Ars Poetica (I 247–250); from special studies of individual printing houses (Aldus Manutius: I 63–67; Plantin: I 90–97; Elzevier: I 174–179) and explorations of Horace as a tool in stylistic wars of the Baroque (I 142–168), to parodies of Horace in the 17th (I 169–173) and 18th (198–210) centuries.