Commenter La Thébaïde (16e-19e S.)

Winner of the 2015 Jozef IJsewijn Prize for best first book on a Neo-Latin topic

Early modern commentaries on Statius' Thebaid have been little studied; even that by Barth (1664-5), which holds a conspicuous place among them, has only been taken into account now and then, and often in a rather superficial way. The present book, which makes use of unpublished archival material, offers a comprehensive overview of these works (contexts, contents, interconnections). It is particularly interested in 16th-17th commentators and strives to give Barth's achievement the attention it deserves. By closely looking at the various ways in which the commentaries respond to Statius' poem, but also at the various kinds of discourse they present, it casts a new light on the reception of the Thebaid and on the early modern practice of commentary-writing.

Les anciens commentaires imprim s de la Th ba de de Stace ont t peu tudi s; m me celui de Barth (1664-5), qui occupe parmi eux une place minente, n'a t pris en compte que de mani re ponctuelle et souvent superficielle. Le pr sent ouvrage, tay par des documents d'archives in dits, offre un examen g n ral de ces travaux (contextes, contenus, filiations). Il s'int resse particuli rement aux commentateurs des 16e-17e s. et s'efforce d'accorder Barth l'attention qu'il m rite. En se penchant sur les diff rentes fa ons dont les ex g ses r pondent au po me de Stace, mais aussi sur les diff rents types de discours qu'elles pr sentent, il apporte un clairage nouveau sur la r ception de la Th ba de et sur la pratique du commentaire au d but de l' poque moderne.