"The articles, collected in the present volume, are revised versions of papers, read in a double Special Session at the XIVth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (Uppsala, 2-7 August 2009)... In addition, two contributors of a panel on 'Poetics applied : Argument, invective, and subtle seduction in early sixteenth-century Latin poetry,' organized at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Venice, graciously agreed to have their papers incorporated in this volume"--Page vii.