Sidney and Junius on Poetry and Painting: From the Margins to the Center

Franciscus Junius (1589-1677) is best known as the father of Germanic philology, but he also wrote the important treatise The Painting of the Ancients. Dundas (emerita English, U. of Illinois) explores the relationship between his account of ancient attitudes about visual art, his marginal annotations in the work of English poet Philip Sidney (1554-86), and other possible connections between the two. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)