Thematic persistences and conceptual changes have marked the entire course of history, sometimes proceeding in parallel and sometimes intertwining, but it is undeniable that the early modern age represents in a paradigmatic way a privileged observatory from which to verify the fruitful interaction between theoretical changes and the recovery of sources. The volume offers materials for the study of the ways in which the ideas that make up the modern tradition are transformed, from a deliberately non-systematic point of view. The analysis takes into account two main aspects: the tension between continuity and change; the perception and conceptualization of change. The essays collected here bring out the plural dimension of the modern, a point of convergence of heterogeneous traditions and themes, and focus both on the words used to describe and make perspicuous, in all its forms, change, and on the concepts that have been affected by this change, enriching themselves in a growing polysemicity, and which therefore significantly distinguish the early modern age.

Instead of relying on government, the US could rebuild the middle class through private investment, income support, debt relief, and job training.

Founded in 1945 by P. O. Kristeller, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has evolved over time to reflect developments in the field of reception studies; each article begins with an overview of a Greek or Latin author’s reception and contains detailed and accurate information about manuscripts and early printed editions along with copious quotations of paratextual material. Volume 12 contains a single article of monographic length on the Metamorphoses of Ovid, a testament to the vastness and complexity of the Nachleben of Ovid’s most popular work. Textual reactions to this work throughout the centuries vary from literal to allegorical and moralizing, from faithful translations to paraphrases, from serious and scholarly commentary to satirical and recontextualizing parody, thus showing this poem’s broad cultural appeal.