Convegno Early Modern and Modern Commentaries on Virgil

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Early Modern and Modern
Commentaries on Virgil

 

Monday, June 14, 2pm-2:20pm

Welcoming words by EMORE PAOLI (Director of the Department of Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) and introduction by SERGIO CASALI

 

SESSION 1

Monday, June 14, 2:20pm-5pm

Chair: VIRGILIO COSTA, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

 

DAVID WILSON-OKAMURA

East Carolina University

Afterimages of Lucretius

 

FABIO STOK

Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

Commenting on Virgil in the 15th Century: from Barzizza (?) to Parrasio (?)-I

 

GIANCARLO ABBAMONTE

Università di Napoli Federico II

Commenting on Virgil in the 15th Century: from Barzizza (?) to Parrasio (?)-II

 

NICOLA LANZARONE

Università di Salerno

Il commento di Pomponio Leto all’Eneide: sondaggi relativi ad Aen. 1 e 2

 

SESSION 2

Monday, June 14, 5:20pm-8pm

Chair: EMANUELE DETTORI, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

 

PETER KNOX

Case Western Reserve University

What if Poliziano Had Written a Commentary on Virgil?

 

PAUL WHITE

University of Leeds

Badius’s Virgil Commentary in the Context of Humanist Education

 

ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI

Sapienza Università di Roma

Petrus Nannius as an Interpreter of Virgil: the Commentary on the Eclogues

 

SERGIO CASALI

Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

Petrus Nannius as an Interpreter of Virgil: the Commentary on Aeneid 4

 

SESSION 3

Tuesday, June 15, 2pm-4:40pm

Chair: JOHN F. MILLER, University of Virginia

 

CRAIG KALLENDORF

Texas A&M University

Virgil’s Unluckiest Commentator? Iodocus Willichius and His Times

 

FEDERICA BESSONE

Università di Torino

Spiegare Virgilio con i suoi successori. I commenti virgiliani sulle tracce di Stazio

 

VIOLA STARNONE

Scuola Superiore Meridionale

The Metamorphoses of Virgil: Early Modern Responses

 

VASSILIKI PANOUSSI

College of William & Mary

Egypt and Africa in the Early Modern Commentaries

 

SESSION 4

Tuesday, June 15, 5pm-7:40pm

Chair: IRENE PEIRANO GARRISON, Harvard University

 

UTE TISCHER

Universität Leipzig

Author Strategies in Collected Editions of Printed Commentaries on Virgil in Early Modern and Modern Times

 

JOSEPH FARRELL

University of Pennsylvania

Rediscovering the Rediscovery of Homer in Vergil Commentaries, Half a Century On

 

MONIQUE BOUQUET

Université de Rennes 2 – CELLAM

La Poétique d’Aristote comme clé de lecture de l’Énéide de Virgile dans les In librum Aristotelis de arte poetica explicationes de Francesco Robortello

 

PHILIP HARDIE

University of Cambridge

MetaVirgilian Commentaries, with Particular Reference to Abraham Cowley Davideis

 

SESSION 5

Wednesday, June 16, 2pm-4:40pm

Chair: BARBARA WEIDEN BOYD, Bowdoin College

 

YASMIN HASKELL

University of Western Australia

Virgil Vindicated: Jesuit Praelections, Prolusions, Corrections and Exclusions

 

GIAN BIAGIO CONTE

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Considerazioni sul Commentario a Virgilio di C. G. Heyne

 

RICHARD F. THOMAS

Harvard University

Between Heyne and Conington from the Land of the Fairies: Thomas Keightley’s Eclogues and Georgics

 

STEPHEN HARRISON

University of Oxford

Victorian Virgil: John Conington and Henry Nettleship’s Commentary (1858-82)

 

SESSION 6

Wednesday, June 16, 5pm-7:40pm

Chair: SHADI BARTSCH, University of Chicago

 

ALISON KEITH

University of Toronto

Epicureana in Virgil Commentaries

 

LUIGI GALASSO

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano

Su cosa si fonda l’Oltretomba. La dialettica commento-saggio da Norden a oggi

 

ALEXANDER ROGUINSKY

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

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MIKHAIL SHUMILIN

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, / A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literatureof the Russian Academy of Sciences / National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Textual Criticism in Russian Language Commentaries on Classical Latin Poetry: The Case of Valery Bryusov’s Projected Commentary on Aeneid 2

 

JAMES O’HARA

University of North Carolina

Adventures in Writing and Editing a Group Classroom Commentary: the Focus-Hackett Aeneid Project