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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.
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.
Super tertium, quaestiones 1-5
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.
Super tertium, quaestiones 1-5
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)
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.
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.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022)
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 figures and carefully choosing his sources and topics – he sought to identify himself with this group of scholars and poets. This study will shed light on the process by which a young author could define his own role within a certain intellectual tradition, in this case Renaissance humanism. Additionally, my paper will draw attention to little-known works, one of them, De hirundine, published here for the first time, that provide a new insight into Vegio’s early years, a relevant, yet understudied, figure of Quattrocento Neo-Latin literature.
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The lyric poetry of the Spanish humanist Benito Arias Montano (1527–1598) has been called “the culmination of Neo-Latin poetry in Spain”; however, there is a dearth of scholarship on his collections of original lyric poetry, Humanae salutis monumenta (1571) and Hymni et secula (1593). In this study, I aim to situate these works in the context of early modern European ‘biblical poetry’ and Spanish Christian Horatianism. I explain that Arias Montano’s biblical poetry is exceptional since inquisitorial censorship in Spain had stifled vernacular poetry on biblical themes, a prohibition he overcame by writing in Latin. I go on to show how, while Arias Montano is part of the European trend of poetic versions of what were considered the ‘poetic’ biblical books, in his original poetry he departs from these trends. Rather, his original lyric constitutes an innovation in the field of versified outlines of the Bible. I argue that this was possible due, among other factors, to the Renaissance reception of Horace. Finally, I also demonstrate how his biblical poetry is markedly different from vernacular Christian Horatianism in Spain with its preference for moral-philosophical themes.
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This paper is conceived as an introduction to the special session focusing on the BSMRAe series and aims at presenting its history. The series was launched in 1930 by the Hungarian classical philologist László Juhász, thus it can be counted among the earliest Neo-Latin series. Juhász’ concept was to establish a publication of Central European scope. From the beginning he had edited works of Hungary-related authors (for ex. the Italian Galeotto Marzio and Antonio Bonfini) and of other Central-European writers (for ex. Conrad Celtis). Up to the present 52 volumes (from over 30 authors) have been published in the series. The profile of the selection also illustrates the characteristics of early modern Neo-Latin literature and humanism in Hungary. Another remarkable initiative by Juhász was that in 1934 he founded the Academia Humanistica, modelled on the academies of the humanists, which can be compared to the IANLS as well.
My paper will also cover the later history of the series and explore the circumstances of the editorial works, the rich variety of authors and the current challenges in the context of the institutionalisation of Neo-Latin studies in Hungary. Finally I will highlight some of the most important volumes.
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This paper presents Jesuit drama’s promotion of the Tridentine model of sanctity known as the “aristocratic hermit”, taking the example of Joannes Baptista Dornsperger’s unpublished play Sanctus Franciscus Xaverius Indiae et Iaponiae Apostolus (staged in Lucerne in 1677). Performing plays was an important part of spiritual education in Jesuit schools. These performances were inflected by Jesuits’ experiences on missions. This paper examines the appearance of Japanese topics in these dramatic performances, particularly the young Japanese prince portrayed in Sanctus Franciscus Xaverius Indiae et Iaponiae Apostolus as a devout neophyte., along with the figures of two other European adolescents, Stanislaus Kostka and Luigi Gonzaga. The paper argues that Kostka, Gonzaga, and the Japanese prince from the play were all intended to function as role models for college students who were also young and often of aristocratic origin.