The Republic of Epigrams. The Latin Epigram and the Multilingual Self in 17th- and 18th-century Europe Ghent University
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Latin gradually lost its dominant position as a literary
language in Europe. The normativity of the Classics was increasingly questioned in the literary
field, and cultural processes such as the boom of translation and the rise of journals opened up
literature to a broader public. Nonetheless, key players in intellectual Europe continued to
produce collected epigrams in Latin. ...