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Luoghi, ambienti, immagini: il paesaggio in Properzio
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Propertius, Assisi – Trevi, 27-29 May 2021
With an investigation into the landscapes and environments – real topical imaginary recalled and traversed by Propertius’ elegies – the contributors focus on the poet’s complex relationship not only with the images of the literary tradition and with those of artistic culture but also with the images Rome Italy and the Mediterranean offered him in his days. This results in the outlines of an original ‘imaginary’ in which the power of personal creation has given Assisi Rome and the Empire a form going beyond the limits of time and space.
Romaniser la foi chrétienne ?
La poésie latine de l’Antiquité tardive entre tradition classique et inspiration chrétienne
Le présent ouvrage participe aux recherches sur la poésie latine tardo-antique qui s’efforcent de situer et de décrire l’émergence puis le développement de cette poésie dans le cadre de la christianisation de l’Empire. Tout en situant les auteurs et les œuvres par rapport aux grands changements et aux convulsions idéologiques qui ont traversé la société romaine du iii e au vi e siècle les dix contributions de ce volume réunies par Giampiero Scafoglio et Fabrice Wendling tentent d’appréhender par le biais de la littérature un phénomène désormais bien étudié par les historiens celui de la transformation du christianisme dans le contexte constantinien et théodosien d’une religion devenue romaine. Si l’on observe dans la sacralisation des bâtiments et des lieux un processus qui opère une rupture avec la religion spirituelle des premiers siècles ne peut-on trouver trace d’une telle mutation dans la poésie des iv e et v e siècles ? Une expression désignant le Christ comme Saluator generis Romulei (Prudence) l’effacement des thématiques chrétiennes dans certains poèmes d’Ausone l’apparition dans les hymnes de Prudence d’une topographie sacrée l’éloge hyperbolique de l’art oratoire chez un Ennode de Pavie ou encore la stigmatisation de la virginité dans tel Épithalame du même Ennode ne témoignent-ils pas d’une forme de « romanisation » ou - plus exactement peut-être - d’interpretatio romana de la foi chrétienne d’origine hébraïque ? Autrement dit symétriquement à la « conversion » de la culture classique dont témoigne la littérature chrétienne ne peut-on mettre au jour dans les textes poétiques un processus sans doute déconcertant mais réel de transformation de la foi de transmutation de ses contenus originels sous l’effet d’une poésie chrétienne qui garde des attaches profondes non seulement avec la poésie classique mais encore avec tout le « passé » de la civilisation romaine antique jusque dans ses aspects religieux ?
El Bellum Ciuile de Lucano: tradición incunable y postincunable (1469-1520)
Desde 1469 año en el que vio la luz la editio princeps del Bellum Ciuile en Roma el poema de Lucano se imprimió íntegramente en diecisiete ocasiones en el siglo XV y en dieciocho en los primeros veinte años del siglo XVI. Así su difusión y lectura durante el Renacimiento fue profusa. En muy poco tiempo los ejemplares impresos procedentes de diferentes talleres de imprenta europeos sobre todo italianos circularon por la Península Ibérica.
En el presente volumen se aborda en primer lugar el estudio filológico del texto transmitido por las ediciones incunables y postincunables del Bellum Ciuile. Durante estos primeros años de tradición impresa se establecieron diferentes formas textuales del poemay finalmente se configuró la vulgata del texto. El análisis filológico del texto de Lucano transmitido en estas ediciones incunables y postincunables ha permitido precisar las relaciones de filiación entre ediciones reconocer las diferentes familias textuales que convivieron en los primeros años de tradición impresa y dar los primeros pasos en la descripción de su relación con la tradición manuscrita así como en la identificación de la intervención de los editores sobre el texto. Todo ello contribuye desde el estudio de una tradición determinada al conocimiento del trabajo editorial realizado en el Renacimiento sobre textos latinos antiguos.
Igualmente se presenta el corpus de ejemplares conservados en bibliotecas españolas atendiendo a las huellas de lectura y a los poseedores que han dejado su rastro en este valioso patrimonio bibliográfico del que somos herederos.
Segetis certa fides meae
Hommages offerts à Gérard Freyburger
La variété des contributions réunies dans ce volume reflète la diversité des centres d’intérêt de Gérard Freyburger auquel des spécialistes de différents domaines des sciences de l’Antiquité ont tenu à rendre hommage. Prolongeant l’héritage de Robert Schilling il a longtemps dirigé l’Institut de Latin de l’Université de Strasbourg et co-dirigé avec Laurent Pernot le Centre d’Analyse des Rhétoriques Religieuses de l’Antiquité (CARRA). Convaincu de l’importance d’une approche pluridisciplinaire des sciences de l’Antiquité il a porté des projets collectifs et dirigé de nombreuses thèses portant sur la religion romaine la philologie latine et la réception de la culture païenne dans l’Antiquité tardive et à la Renaissance.
Les contributions de ce volume sont regroupées en cinq thématiques qui illustrent ses principaux domaines de recherche. Il est ainsi question de religion romaine et de magie de rhétorique et de philosophie du modèle virgilien et de sa postérité des relations entre auteurs païens et chrétiens de perspectives comparatistes et d’Antiquité rémanente. Le recueil témoigne de la fécondité d’approches croisées et fait dialoguer l’histoire des religions la philologie grecque et latine l’histoire et l’archéologie ainsi que les méthodes comparatistes pour rendre hommage à celui qui s’est engagé durant toute sa carrière pour promouvoir les recherches interdisciplinaires sur le monde romain antique.
I generi letterari in Properzio: modelli e fortuna
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Propertius. Assisi-Spello, 24-27 May 2018
Tra Omero e Virgilio passando attraverso la tragedia l'epos enniano l'epigramma e il registro epigrafico la tradizione etiologica e didascalica e la formularità giuridica la silloge properziana guadagna grazie a questo XXII Convegno una nuova primazia nel macrotesto augusteo. La sua poetica appare meno rettilinea ma più dialogante alla ricerca di una via per uscire dalla gabbia dello stereotipo erotico: e se non così 'difficile' come in passato risulta la sua adesione alle direttive augustee più ricca appare la strumentazione posta in atto da Properzio per nutrire la propria vocazione per cercare una strada autonoma: far risuonare nella propria la voce virgiliana ma con un mutato orientamento una nuova discorsività. Del resto dobbiamo prepararci a pensare in termini rinnovati o perlomeno più definiti lo stesso personaggio Properzio: un Sesto Properzio finanzia in età augustea o giulio-claudia la costruzione in Assisi di un teatro probabilmente legato alla Domus Musae. Così la prosopografia properziana si profila strettamente intrecciata alla storia della letteratura di età imperiale e può gettare luce anche sui possibili consumatori di poesia elegiaca.
Ovid in Late Antiquity
The 2000th anniversary of Ovid's death was celebrated in 2017 and Ovid in Late Antiquity aims to mark the occasion. This book embodies a specific approach to Ovid's oeuvre which is not analysed in and of itself but rather in its role as a wellspring of inspiration to which later authors would return time and again. Covering the work of a number of authors who found their way back to Ovid via different methodological pathways the research distilled in this book is geared towards exploring the ways in which the authors of late antquity interacted with the poet of the Metamorphoses and with his immense multifaceted output. The choice of this approach arose out of an awareness that the presence and influence of Ovid in late antiquity constitute aspects of the Ovidian legacy that would benefit from more in-depth exploration. The essays in this collection are intended to help bridge this gap.
Properzio fra Repubblica e Principato
Proceedings of the twenty-first international conference on Propertius, Assisi – Cannara, 30 May –1 June 2016
The 2016 conference’s aim was to place Propertius in context. The papers focused on the compatibility between the choice of the elegiac form and the political framework with special emphasis on Propertius’ relationship to Tullus before his approach to Maecenas and the more direct contact with Augustus subsequent to Maecenas’ removal. While not overstepping the bounds of the genre the poet was able to contrive a set of references to the princeps and the political reality thus originally achieving a balanced attitude. It is impossible however to grasp any growing alignment with Augustan policies. Rather the recognition of the collective perception of the turning point marked by the victory at Actium though within the patterns typical of the elegiac genre can be perceived.
Contributions to the History of the Latin Elegiac Distich
The elegiac distich was introduced in Rome by Quintus Ennius in the first half of the 2nd century BC. It became the standard meter of epigram and elegy its life extending over a very long period from archaic Latinity to late antiquity (and beyond to the Middle Ages and the early modern period). This volume provides scholars with a collection of (in good part previously unpublished) first-hand analyses of the elegiac distich based on the scansion of nearly all Latin poetry in this meter from Catullus to Venantius Fortunatus. As such it reconstructs the evolution of the Latin elegiac distich in the first seven hundred years of its history and it sheds new light on the metrical style of almost all Latin poets who composed verses in it during the period under consideration.
Le figure del mito in Properzio
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Propertius, Assisi-Bevagna 30 May - 1 June 2014
The myth in Propertius was already dealt with in Colloquium Propertianum in 2002 but in the present book - Le figure del mito in Properzio - appears as an ethical and aesthetic value in thefield of letters arts and historical memory of the Roman people. Propertius’ Elegies show a deep and refined Hellenistic culture that seeks its roots in Etruscan and Umbrian origins in the years when Augustus was restoring the temples of past ages and creating the principatus. The topic of the myth throughout the four books of Elegies differs both from Catullus and from the writers of his period (Virgil Horace Ovid Tibullus) and constitutes a peculiar entity where the memory of the past becomes present.
Sidonio Apollinare, Epitalamio per Ruricio e Iberia
Edizione, traduzione e commento a cura di Stefania Filosini
About the mid-Fifties of 5th century AD the Gallo-Roman aristocrat and gifted poet Sidonius Apollinaris composed an epithalamium to celebrate the marriage of his noble friends Ruricius and Hiberia. Sidonius did not know that in less than two decades he would become the bishop of Clermont-Ferrand nor could Ruricius imagine that he would die the bishop of Limoges. Clinging to their profane models mostly represented by the epithalamia written by Statius and Claudian the poem (carm. 11) and its preface (carm. 10) depict a world where the overwhelming presence of myth helps to keep reality aside and the skilled devices of a sophisticated poetry try to revive the formal perfection of Roman classics and their values.
This volume provides a general introduction a critical text with Italian translation a punctual commentary (in fact the first one) to the epithalamium and its preface and a summary in English; it shows the original contribution of Sidonius to the literary tradition of late Latin Epithalamia; it illustrates the techniques of the poet; it deals with the many exegetic problems presented by both poems and it proposes new solutions for some of them.