Research during the last decades has demonstrated the critical importance of Neo-Latin literature for the formation of cultural identities on both a European, as well as on a national and regional level, especially in those parts of Europe which have not previously been at the centre of scholarly interest. The studies collected in this volume explore different aspects of the Neo-Latin literature in Croatia and Tyrol from the Renaissance to the dawn of modernity. Their interests range from the interpretation of individual genres or periods, to comparison of the two literatures and evaluation of the very concepts of national and regional literature in the field of Neo-Latin studies. It is the first volume published in English to examine either Croatian or Tyrolean Latinity to such an extent.

Florian Schaffenrath (*1978, Innsbruck) studierte Klassische Philologie in Heidelberg, Innsbruck in Siena. Nach verschiedenen Projektanstellungen und einem Forschungsjahr am Österreichischen Historischen Institut in Rom wurde er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und später Assistenz-Professor am Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck. Seit 2011 ist er stellvertretender Leiter des Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes für Neulateinische Studien.