Re: VIRGIL: call for help

[Philip Thibodeau]

In an article on "Astronomical Cruces in the Georgics" (TAPA 79: 24-45),
Robert J. Getty refers in passing to a conjecture made by a certain "De la
Rue (1675)" - without offering any further bibliographical data.  He/she may
be Vergilian scholar or commentator, or perhaps a student of ancient
astronomy, fl. c.1675.  Do listmembers have any idea who this individual
might be?

Thanks,

Philip Thibodeau

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Re: VIRGIL: call for help

[Simon Cauchi]

At 11:03 AM 5/3/2002, Philip Thibodeau wrote:
>In an article on "Astronomical Cruces in the Georgics" (TAPA 79: 24-45),
>Robert J. Getty refers in passing to a conjecture made by a certain "De la
>Rue (1675)" - without offering any further bibliographical data. He/she
>may be Vergilian scholar or commentator, or perhaps a student of ancient
>astronomy, fl. c.1675. Do listmembers have any idea who this individual
>might be?

He's the editor of a popular and much-reprinted annotated edition of
Virgil's Works first published in 1675. I happen to possess a 1727 London
edition in which the title-page reads as follows: "P. Virgilii Maronis
opera interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruaeus, Soc. Jesu, jussu
Christianissimi Regis, ad usum Serenissimi Delphini. Juxta Editionem
novissimam Parisiensem." The "index vocabulorum" of this edition runs to
223 pages.

Dryden is known to have used the Ruaeus edition when making his translation
of Virgil.

Simon Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Writers should be read and not seen." (Denis Welch)


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RE: VIRGIL: call for help

[Johan Hanselaer]

Charles de la Rue or Carolus Ruaeus (Paris, 1643-1725), was the editor of
the Vergil edition in the series "ad usum Delphini. His editing work on
Vergil was printed more than 40 times before 1801, with or without the notes
of others.
Biographical references:
PAUPHILET (1996) 0711-712: Le XVIIe siècle (Parijs, 1996)
SCHNEIDER (1982) D044: Vergil. Handschriften und Drücke der Herzog 
August
Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (Wolfenbüttel, 1982)
ZEDLER (1961) 33: 1512-1513: Grosses vollständiges Universal Lexikon.

Johan HANSELAER
http://home.tiscalinet.be/beledimar
(Belgian Editions, printed before 1801, on the Market)

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Onderwerp: Re: VIRGIL: call for help


In an article on "Astronomical Cruces in the Georgics" (TAPA 79: 24-45),
Robert J. Getty refers in passing to a conjecture made by a certain "De la
Rue (1675)" - without offering any further bibliographical data.  He/she may
be Vergilian scholar or commentator, or perhaps a student of ancient
astronomy, fl. c.1675.  Do listmembers have any idea who this individual
might be?

Thanks,

Philip Thibodeau

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VIRGIL: Charles de la Rue

[David Wilson-Okamura]

At 11:03 AM 3/5/02 -0500, Philip Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In an article on "Astronomical Cruces in the Georgics" (TAPA 79: 24-45),
>Robert J. Getty refers in passing to a conjecture made by a certain "De la
>Rue (1675)" - without offering any further bibliographical data.  He/she may
>be Vergilian scholar or commentator, or perhaps a student of ancient
>astronomy, fl. c.1675.  Do listmembers have any idea who this individual
>might be?

Here's what I know:

(1) Charles de la Rue (1643-1725) published an edition with commentary
(including a De natura Aeneidos disquisitio) in 1675.

(2) It was apparently undertaken ad usum Delphini, "for the use of the
Dauphin."

(3) According to http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/wordsworth.html the Ruaeus
edition (also known as the "Delphine Virgil") was still one of two standard
school editions in eighteenth-century England. (The other was by Jan Minel.)

(4) Ruaeus was a Jesuit; here's what the Jesuit Family Album
 has to say about him:
"Charles de la Rue, S.J. (French: 1643-1725) was a distinguished Latinist,
humanist, and court preacher during his 65 years in the Society. The early
part of his career was spent in teaching humanities and rhetoric at the
College of Louis the Great of Paris. Pierre Corneille paid Charles the
compliment of translating into French some of his Latin poems, celebrating
Louis XIV's victories over the Dutch and the Bavarians. From this period
dates the beginning of Charles' work in drama. To the more strictly
literary part of Charles' career belongs the extensive commentary on the
major works of Virgil. The explanatory notes, rhetorical exercises, and
indices were produced as an aid to the Dauphin. Charles became a court
preacher and spiritual director to the nobility. He enjoyed a great
reputation as a preacher, and many of his publications were funeral
orations. Although immersed in court life, Charles longed to go to Canada
and to labor among the North American Indians as a missionary. His
superiors thought his talents were better used in France."

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Re: VIRGIL: Charles de la Rue

[Philip Thibodeau]

Maximas gratias vobis omnibus!

PT

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