| Dr. Norm Klassen, an English professor interested in the question of virtue (and intent on improving his Latin), is currently completing a translation of Peter Martyr’s In Epistolam S. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos ... Commentarii 10-16, a 16th-century commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. Taking a literary approach to this text required tracking down obscure references to biblical and classical sources—a research process that has sensitized him to the range of undiscovered treasures hidden in texts. One of these finds, on the relationship between Venus and love in Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls,” will be published as a separate article this year. Klassen’s long-standing interest in concepts of virtue and in medieval humanism (hence his first book, Chaucer on Love, Knowledge, and Sight) also informs his current work in progress: a study of natural and transcendent light sources in The Good City Republic by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, an artist who uses light in his painting to portray a complex blending of humanistic qualities and transcendence. |  |
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