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COLLOQUIA FAMILIARIA AETATE LITTERARUM RENATARUM SCRIPTA NE SPERNAMUS!

We hope to bring to the attention of modern readers a genre of works composed in great numbers during the Renaissance, which were designed to complement the practice of conversational Latin. We single out these particular texts, because, in our opinion, teachers of Latin in our own time can still fi...

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Published in:Nordlit Vol. 33; pp. 311 - 320
Main Author: Tunberg, Terentius
Format: Article
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2014
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:We hope to bring to the attention of modern readers a genre of works composed in great numbers during the Renaissance, which were designed to complement the practice of conversational Latin. We single out these particular texts, because, in our opinion, teachers of Latin in our own time can still find them useful. They take the form of simple dialogues which are usually brief. They are typically called colloquia, and are filled with pure and idiomatic Latin phrases pertaining to daily life. The most famous humanists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including Erasmus, Vives, Corderius, Sturmius, Pontanus among others, are numbered among the authors of colloquia. We hope to outline the main features of these texts, to explain why they were published in such large numbers in the humanistic age, and what benefits students and teachers of Latin today can gain from such colloquia.
Tractantur in hac symbola opuscula quaedam aetate litterarum renatarum ad consuetudinem Latine colloquendi alendam editis, quae nobis videntur esse linguae Latinae studiosis adhuc utilia. Multi litterarum praeceptores, velut Erasmus, Vives, Corderius, Sturmius, Pontanus, alii permulti, dialogos breves vel "colloquia," quod nomen nonumquam usurpatur ad huiusmodi dialogos indicandos, saeculis XVI et XVII composuerunt, ut iuvenes sermonis cottidiani sed integri et puri specimina in promptu haberent. Ostendere volumus qualia sint haec opuscula, cur tot eiusmodi dialogi saeculis XVI et XVII in publicum dati sint, qualia emolumenta ex his 'colloquiis' percipi possint ab iis, qui in litteras Latinas nostro saeculo incumbunt.