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This book is a collection of studies initially presented at the Third International Conference on Clement of Alexandria, which was focused on the Paedagogus. Although on the surface the Paedagogus seems to be more easily accessible than Clement's lengthier Stromateis or his fragmentary Excerpta ex Theodoto, the studies show that a profound theological undercurrent runs through the three books of the Paedagogus – the first focusing on the Logos, and the other two on ethics.
Contributors: Emanuela Prinzivalli, Veronika Hrůšová, Miklós Gyurkovics, Edward Creedy, Marco Rizzi, Annewies van den Hoek, Vít Hušek, Léon-Ferdinand Karuhije, Lenka Karfíková, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Riemer Roukema, Jana Plátová, Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch, Dawn LaValle Norman, Carlo Perelli.
Mapping “I Am” in the Gospel of John
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This book introduces a new methodological framework based on the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics which can examine the linguistic features of the New Testament text. By applying a two-step discourse analysis model that includes a functional-semantic analysis and a rhetorical-relational analysis, this book argues that the twenty-eight occurrences of “I am” in Jesus’s utterances throughout the Gospel of John reinforce John’s portrayal of Jesus’s divinity. In the light of John’s construing of Jesus’s divinity, this new analysis of the Johannine “I am” phrases demonstrates how Johannine Christology is expressed through the narrative of John’s Gospel with various textual characteristics.
Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation
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The Orphic Hymns, a collection of invocations to the complete Greek pantheon, have reached us without explicit information about the contexts of their composition and performance. Combining a new critical edition and translation of the hymns with an in-depth study of the poetic strategies they employ and the forms of Greek poetry they draw upon, this book explores what the hymns can tell us about themselves. Through the use of allusion and figures that look to the earliest Greek poetry, the hymns present themselves as a text to be heard and meditated upon in performance, and as Orpheus’ summative revelation on the nature and unity of the divine realm.
This edition contains quaestiones 1-5 of book III of the commentary on the Sentences, by Marsilius of Inghen (†1396), the founding rector and first doctor of theology of the University of Heidelberg. These questions are devoted to the Christology, Mariology, and Trinitology, and deal with the issue of the Incarnation of Christ, with quaestiones 1-3 considering it in relation to the individual Persons of the Trinity, and quaestiones 4-5 in relation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In all questions, Marsilius advocates the via media of sound faith, even above any school traditions.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022)
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Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies.
In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process.
The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.

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Secondo le testimonianze disponibili (soprattutto epistolari), il rapporto fra l’umanista camaldolese Ambrogio Traversari (1386–1439) e Cosimo de’ Medici (1389–1464) fu caratterizzato da una dinamica di tipo clientelare ed ebbe modo di manifestarsi sotto vari aspetti: da quello culturale a quello economico, da quello sociale a quello politico. Cosimo, infatti, attraverso le sue ingenti risorse e la sua influenza politica, sostenne Ambrogio tanto nella sua attività culturale di umanista, quanto nella sua azione di generale e riformatore dell’ordine camaldolese e di uomo di Chiesa. Per parte sua, anche Ambrogio si adoperò a favore del Medici quando fu necessario, ad esempio, durante la prigionia e l’esilio di Cosimo. Un’eccezionale testimonianza del rapporto fra i due è costituita, infine, dal ms. Laurenziano Strozzi 102, contenente la silloge epistolare traversariana realizzata dal monaco Michele su incarico e con l’aiuto di Cosimo qualche anno dopo la morte di Traversari. Infatti, l’operazione culturale alle spalle di tale silloge sembra finalizzata a ribadire da parte di Cosimo l’appartenenza della figura dell’umanista e riformatore Traversari al milieu mediceo.

In: Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis

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This article introduces and discusses the ideological program of a motif identified by the author in humanistic mournful poetry. The motif was intended to commemorate the deceased eminent poet and referred to the epic tradition of introducing heroes into a special place in the Elysian Fields, hence the proposed name for it is amicitia elysea. The article focuses on what is presumed to be the first example of the motif, i.e., Carlo Marsuppini’s epicedium for Leonardo Bruni. The description of the Elysium inhabited by successive generations of scholars and poets here turns into a praise of Florence, which under the Medici rule resembled Paradise. First, the stages in the development of both the idea itself and the poetic form it took are discussed, starting from Greek literature through Roman and Medieval vernacular (Dante) to the form it assumed in the Elegia de morte Leonardi Aretini. This form of the motif was soon developed by the followers. Then, the exploitation of the amicitia elysea motif for political purposes is addressed. It is argued that the motif served to consolidate the power of the Medici and the position of the humanists as a professional group with a specific intellectual formation based on Classical education.

In: Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis

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La nozione di ‘barocco’ nella produzione neolatina ha dato luogo a un vivace dibattito teorico fin dagli anni Settanta, ma è tuttora scarsamente indagata in sede testuale. Si propone qui un breve sondaggio del ‘barocco’ neolatino su base linguistica. Il caso di studio è fornito da tre descrizioni neolatine dell’arsenale di Venezia: il confronto tra le due versioni seicentesche di Ottavio Ferrari e di Francisco Macedo permette di individuare strategie diverse in seno alla medesima corrente stilistica; il raffronto con la descrizione settecentesca di Emmanuel de Azevedo dà la misura dello scarto verificatosi nel Settecento con il ritorno in auge dei modelli tardorepubblicani e augustei.

In: Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis

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Maffeo Vegio is well-known for writing a thirteenth book of the Aeneid, yet, the rest of his substantial literary production has received little to no scholarly attention. This paper examines Vegio’s earliest known poems – the epigram Orator Ciceronis and the hexameter poems Pompeiana and De hirundine – in order to explore the techniques and literary devices used by a neophyte poet to promote himself among the community of Neo-Latin scholars and poets of the early Quattrocento. An analysis of these poems, together with a study of the extra-textual circumstances surrounding their composition, reveals that the young Vegio was aware of contemporary fashions and preoccupations among Italian humanists and – employing certain rhetorical fig