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Cambridge Society For Neo-Latin Studies (CSNLS) Seminars
The Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies was founded with the goal of providing scholars with a forum for the presentation and discussion of topics relating to all aspects of Neo-Latin writing. Activities are centred on term-time seminars, and an annual symposium devoted to a particular theme. Symposia in the past have covered a wide range of topics, from erotic to didactic writing, from literary quarrels to Neo-Latin humour, and from mythography to the visual arts. The 2005 Symposium was on Neo-Latin and the Pastoral, the 2007 Symposium was on Neo-Latin Drama, the 2008 Symposium was on the theme of Allegory, the 2010 Symposium was on Neo-Latin and Translation in the Renaissance, and the 2011 Symposium was on the theme of Commentaries.For further information about CSNLS, or if you would like to be included on the electronic mailing list, please contact the CSNLS secretary, Dr Andrew Taylor.
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2013 Easter term seminars
All are welcome. Wine is served during the discussion.
Thursday 2nd May at 5.30pm at Trinity College, Room A2, Nevile's CourtFor directions to this venue please see http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=289
DEMMY VERBEKE (KU Leuven), 'Latin orations at the University of Leuven'
Shortly after the foundation of the University of Leuven in 1425, the academic authorities established a chair of eloquence within the Arts Faculty. The appointed professor received the title of rhetor academicus and was expected to train students through the use of declamatory exercises. This piece of information is only one indication of the fact that rhetoric thrived in Leuven during the fifteenth and sixteenth century, as is further exemplified by the numerous Latin orations still extant (which were delivered at the opening of the academic year, the start of a new course, doctoral promotions, or some other public event). This paper presents the institutional context for this rhetorical output and the various genres of Latin orations found in Leuven, before discussing a number of examples, written by Maarten van Dorp (1485-1525), Juan Luis Vives (1492/3-1540) and Petrus Nannius (1500-1557), in more detail.
Thursday 23rd May. **Old Library, Sidney Sussex College** Click here for a map to this venue.FRANCESCO LUCIOLI (Cambridge), 'An unknown epigram on the statue of the Sleeping Cupid'
One of the Vatican manuscripts written by the humanist Angelo Colocci contains a Latin epigram attributed to Gregorio Cortese, one of the most important cultural personalities in Renaissance Italy. In this unknown and still unpublished text Cortese describes a statue representing a Sleeping Cupid. Is this the well (un)known Michelangelo's lost Sleeping Cupid, which Cesare Borgia gave to Isabella d'Este at the end of the XV century? Or is it rather the ancient statue attributed to Praxiteles, which Isabella bought in that period for her Grotta? Many poets have written about these two statues - humanists such as Paride Ceresara, Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli, Baldassar Castiglione and Battista Mantovano; this epigram belongs to this long series of Latin and Vernacular texts, but at the same time it offers the chance to read such an important episode of the Renaissnce art history from an unusual point of view.
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