<p>A Neo-Latin Reader with selections from Petrarch to Rimbaud. With introductions, notes, sources, references and illustrations.</p><p>'Neo Latin' is a rather clumsy designation for Latin written in the Renaissance and later. Latin students are rarely exposed to such writing, which is a pity because there is a whole world of highly worthwhile but often sadly neglected texts positively begging to be explored. Prof. Riley&#39;s Reader provides a fine introduction to this literature and is bound to open students&#39; eyes to the wealth of material they can investigate, literary, historical and scientific . . .</p>