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List Of Recent Original Books In Latin
Authors are still producing original books in Latin today. This page lists contemporary or recent books (from the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries) originally written in Latin. These books are not called "new" because the term Neo-Latin or New Latin refers to books written as early as the 1500s, which is "newer" than Classical Antiquity or the Middle Ages. Translations of pre-existing modern literature are not included here. Fiction Literary fiction Fiction for educational use Novellas for Latin learners Plays for educational use Poetry Nonfiction See also * Libri Latine redditi in Vicipaedia Latina (Wikipedia in Latin) *List of Latin translations of modern literature *List of modern literature translated into dead languages This is a list of translations of modern literature into dead languages. There is a separate list of such translations into Latin. Modern literature Comic books {, class="wikitable sortable" border="0" ! scope="col" , Target language ! scope . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Latin
Contemporary Latin is the form of the Literary Latin used since the end of the 19th century. Various kinds of contemporary Latin can be distinguished, including the use of New Latin words in taxonomy and in science generally, and the fuller ecclesiastical use in the Catholic Church – but Living or Spoken Latin (the use of Latin as a language in its own right as a full-fledged means of expression) is the primary subject of this article. Token Latin Latin is still present in words or phrases used in many languages around the world, as a relic of the great importance of New Latin, which was the formerly dominant international ''lingua franca'' down to the 19th century in a great number of fields. Some minor communities also use Latin in their speech. Mottos The official use of Latin in previous eras has survived at a symbolic level in many mottos that are still being used and even coined in Latin to this day. Old mottos like , found in 1776 on the Seal of the United States, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Samuel Jones
William Henry Samuel Jones (8 April 1876 – 4 February 1963) was a British writer, translator, and academic. He was nicknamed Malaria Jones, because of his theory that malaria was instrumental in the downfall of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome. Jones was born and raised in Birmingham, and educated at Aston Grammar School and King Edward's School, Birmingham. He entered Selwyn College, Cambridge in 1894, graduating B.A. 1897, M.A. 1902, Litt.D. 1925. He taught Classics at The Perse School in Cambridge, and was appointed a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Camb ... in 1908, serving the college as Dean, Steward and Bursar, and President. He wrote two histories of the college, published in 1936 and 1951. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef IJsewijn
Jozef A. M. K. IJsewijn ( Zwijndrecht, 30 December 1932 – Leuven, 27 November 1998) was a Belgian Latinist. He studied classical philology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he became a professor in 1967. An authority on Neo-Latin literature (Latin texts since the beginning of humanism Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency of human beings. It considers human beings the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry. The meaning of the term "human ... in the 14th century), IJsewijn has been called "the founding father of modern neo-Latin studies". In 1980, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences. A collection of essays in his memory was published in 2000.Dirk Sacré and Gilbert Tournoy, eds., ''Myricae : essays on neo-Latin literature in memory of Jozef IJsewijn'', 2000. Works * ''De sacerdotibus sacerdotiisque Alexandri Magni et Lagidarum eponymis'', 1961 * (ed. with G. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Đuro Ferić
Đuro Ferić, also Giorgio Ferrich, (May 5, 1739 – 1820) was a poet and a Jesuit vicar general of the Republic of Ragusa. As a poet, he belonged to the Illyrian circle in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia). Illyrian (Slavic) was synonymous with the Croatian language at that time. His collection of Illyrian fables, published in Ragusa in 1794, bore the Latin title ''Fabulae ab Illyricis adagiis disumptae'', and a second similar text, existing only in manuscript, was titled: ''Adagia illirycae linguae fabulis explicata''. An unpublished collection of his own Slavic poems was titled in Latin: ''Slavica Poematia Latine reddita''. In the second decade of the 19th century he published in Ragusa two further works in Croatian (Slovinski). Ferić put together a collection of short poems in praise of those Ragusan poets who wrote in the Illyrian language, such as Dominko Zlatarić's translation of ''Sophocles'' and Ivan Gundulić's ''Osman''. See also *Republic of Ragusa The Repub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Novák (composer)
Jan Novák (8 April 1921, Nová Říše – 17 November 1984, Neu Ulm) was a Czech composer of classical music. Novák was primarily active in the 1960s and composed the music for several films of Karel Kachyňa. Novák also composed music for the films of animators Jiří Trnka and Karel Zeman, the leading figures of the Czech animated film, as well as for '' Wir'' (1982, TV film) (based on '' We'', the 1921 Russian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin). Jan Novák was also a Contemporary Latin poet, under the pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ... Ianus Novak. In 1970 he was awarded the ''magna laus'' at the Amsterdam latin poetry competition, the '. Selected works * Concerto for oboe and orchestra (1952) * ''Baletti a 9'' for nonett (1955) * Concerto for two piano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
