Starveling speculation?

Calvin's Latin prose and having doubts about Virgil

This week here’s a piece I wrote last summer on the very striking use of Virgil in the opening of Calvin’s Institutes of Christian Religion. We tend not to think of Calvin as a stylist, or a great prose writer, but he was a remarkable one — both in French and Latin. This piece also features in passing a taste of various early modern English verse transl…