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Johannes Stamler's Dyalogus

1938; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/458542

1938-1530

Elizabeth M. Nugent,

Renaissance Literature and Culture

The Dyalogus published by Johannes Stamler in 1508 when he was rector of the parish church in the little German town of Kissing, a suburb of Augsburg, has up to this time been so completely overlooked by literary critics that its appearance now may be in a measure classed as a discovery. Stamler himself has fared no better at the hands of biographers. A few bibliographers list the play, but with the exception of A. Veith in his Bibliotheca Augustana do scarcely more than quote the full title. Several give a detailed account of Hans Burgkmair's frontispiece, a woodcut depicting, besides the characters of the play, Pope Julian II, and the Emperor Maximilian I. But the woodcut was used only in the first edition, of which twenty-five copies have been located so far. It does not appear in the smaller Italian translation published the same year in Venice by the little-known Giovanni Padovano.