This "Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance is the first dictionary of
Renaissance Latin and continues on from the "Dictionnaire latin-frangais of F.
Gaffiot. However, it comprises 8500 words, more than 7000 of which are not
mentioned by Gaffiot, while others are employed with different meanings.
It is based upon a reading of a very large number of texts by 150 authors from
Western and Central Europe, including Budi, Calvin, Erasmus, Ficino, Lipsius,
Luther, Melanchthon, More, Petrarch, Pica della Mirandola, Politian, Valla,
Vives, and Zwingli. The compiler has paid particular attention to variety in the
source texts, which cover literature, correspondence, history, law, philosophy,
theology, and