ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on how the two main strands in the reception of Gallus (the poet of old age and the poet of love) fed into the broader literary culture, and surveys neo-Latin and vernacular imitations of Gaurico’s Gallus. It considers the presence of ‘Gallus’ in works of gerontology, in commonplace compilations and in treatises on love. It explores the association of the Renaissance Gallus with obscenity. Finally, it discusses poetic imitations of Maximianus-Gallus in the works of Poliziano, Petrus Lotichius Secundus, Marc-Antoine Muret, Pierre de Ronsard, Erasmus, Etienne Dolet, Germain Audebert d’Orléans. Particular attention is given to the Quattuor libri amorum secundum quattuor latera Germaniae (1502), an elegiac collection by the German neo-Latin poet Konrad Celtis.
