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[...]the poet's career is followed from the tune he was an orator at die papal court to when he became a recognized itinerant poet of die highest order. [...]it is always a problem to resort to metrics as a desperate solution to a problem, and Dryden's work on satire is not secondary literature, but an important primary source in the history of classical scholarship. [...]the second part of the collection's title, Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge. [...]Nienke Tjoelker turns to John Lynch's Alithinologia to show how material philology places the work in its social context, from which new conclusions can be drawn about both Lynchs career and about reading and writing more generally by Irish exiles in the seventeenth century.