Rīgas neolatīniskie teksti latīņu valodas apguvē: Bazilija Plīnija „Encomium Rigae” jeb Rīgas antoloģiju gaidot
Neo-Latin texts of Riga in the teaching of Latin: “Encomium Rigae” by Basilius Plinius or waiting for Anthologia Rigensis

Summary/Abstract: This article takes a look at the available teaching resources of Neo-Latin culture and literature. The main focus is the Neo-Latin literature, i.e., the textbooks in circulation that are used in classrooms. Other resources for the teaching of Neo-Latin literature have likewise been taken into consideration. The most essential and the most recent ones of these resources has been described and compared in the article. As Neo-Latinity was a phenomenon that at least linguistically united Europe from the 14th century to the beginning of the 19th century, texts were composed and published in Latin also in the former capital of Livonia – Riga. The poet and physician Basilius Plinius, which can be regarded as one of the Riga humanists, produced several works of panegyric and didactic poetry. The most well-known of these works – “Encomium Rigae” (1595) – has been used as a source in the creation of a teaching material of Neo-Latin literature. Due to the virtual obscurity, inaccessibility and lack of research dedicated to the texts by Riga humanists, this particular case can be deemed an extravagant exception. Thus, the article considers this case – the teaching material produced by the German teacher Michael Feller – and seeks to analyse how the text by Plinius has been employed as a means for teaching Neo-Latin culture and literature.

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