'Mapping the Latin Enlightenment' is a Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council, 2009-2011.
This project appraises the much-underestimated role of Latin as a scientific and literary language in the eighteenth century. It explores international Latin networks in Italy,France, and the Netherlands, following in the footsteps of a Dutch physician who used Latin verse to communicate medical learning, comment on contemporary mores, and forge relationships with leading intellectuals and scientists all over Europe. It will illuminate the linguistic dimension to the kinds of knowledge one might be expected to display in different professional, intellectual-political, and regional contexts. It will map centres and peripheries of 18th-c Latinity and test their connections to mainstream and radical Enlightenment culture.
Members: Professor Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia), Dr Maurizio Campanelli (University of Rome), Dr Agata Pincelli (Rome; currently research fellow at the University of St Andrews), Dr Jan Waszink (Utrecht)