The Virgilian Tradition II brings together thirteen essays by historian Craig Kallendorf. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern history, as well as those interested in book history and cultural history.

Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries.

Introduction Part 1: Renaissance Readings of Virgil 1. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 2. Historicizing the "Harvard School": Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Italian Renaissance Scholarship 3. Representing the Other: Ercilla's La Araucana, Virgil's Aeneid, and the 'New' World Encounter 4. Epic and Tragedy - Virgil, La Cerda, Milton 5. Nicodemus Frischlin's Dido: Virgil on the German Stage 6. The Neo-Latin Epic Part 2: Early Books and Manuscripts, Mostly Virgilian 7. The Medium Is the Message: From Manuscript to the Hand Press to the Computer Age 8. Using Manuscripts and Early Printed Books 9. A Humanist Annotator of Virgil: Coluccio Salutati 10. Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 11. Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Plato, Aristotle, and the Function of Literature 12. Virgil in the Renaissance Classroom: From Toscanella's Osservationi ... sopra l'opere di Virgilio to the Exercitationes rhetoricae 13. Canon, Print, and the Virgilian Corpus