Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry
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The journey is an ancient metaphor for the didactic poem, and the writing of this book on Jesuit didactic poetry has been the occasion of much physical travelling and many intellectual adventures. At the same time it has been a journey through waters largely uncharted by modern scholarship, and I must confess that the prospect of the distances to be covered was sometimes overwhelming. In the end, however, like the poet of the Georgics furling his sails and turning his prow to shore, I am relieved to be ‘prevented by the narrow bounds’ of a reasonable word limit from exploring in detail every corner of every port of call. I cheerfully ‘leave these things to my successors to describe’.
My first thanks must go to the British Academy for their generous sponsorship both of project and dilatory pilot. In recent years the department of Italian at the University of Cambridge—under the headship, initially, of my model Academy mentor, Virginia Cox, and latterly, Patrick Boyde—has provided a welcome base. Research trips and attendance at conferences were made possible by grants from Newnham College, where I enjoyed a research fellowship from 1995 to 1999, and the Faculty of Classics.
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