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C.A.L.M.A. 8.3, Iohannes Cochlaeus - Iohannes de Dumbleton OSB, Florence, 2025.

Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo
249-372 pages
ISBN : 978-88-9290-425-5
95 €
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L'opera è un repertorio riguardante gli autori medievali le cui opere sono databili entro un arco cronologico compreso tra il VI secolo e la prima metà del XVI. Per ciascun autore, il Compendium fornisce: 1 - una scheda contenente la bibliografia generale sull'autore e che comprende: i repertori specializzati, i lessici di riferimento nazionali e internazionali, i dizionari enciclopedici, i manuali generali e alcuni studi sul singolo autore; 2 - l'elenco delle opere attribuite all'autore, incluse quelle di dubbia autenticità, e per ciascuna delle quali si segnala: il repertorio o i repertori di riferimento, l'edizione o le edizioni, i manoscritti relatori, gli studi specifici.
La pubblicazione è in fascicoli semestrali, ordinati per serie alfabetica degli autori.

Source : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

Stéphane Benoist, Sabine Lefebvre, Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe et Anne Daguet-Gagey (éd.), L'abolitio memoriae à Rome et dans le monde romain (Ier s. av. n. è.—IVe s. de n. è.), Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2025.

Éditeur : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
558 pages
ISBN : 978-2-7574-4552-5
33 €

Fruit d'un programme de recherche consacré à la condamnation de mémoire dans l'Antiquité romaine engagé depuis les années 2000, ce volume collectif s'insère dans un domaine d'étude en plein renouvellement. Il propose une synthèse originale, fondée sur un dépouillement exhaustif des sources disponibles (épigraphiques, iconographiques, littéraires et juridiques). Il comprend les travaux des chercheurs associés au programme et de spécialistes européens. Il développe une série de réflexions méthodologiques, d'études de cas et de perspectives historiographiques sur une procédure spécifique du monde romain. Elle est redéfinie ici en tant qu'abolitio memoriae, après avoir été décrite à partir de 1936 en tant que damnatio memoriae, expression utilisée par la suite pour toutes les périodes de l'histoire. Le volume permet ainsi de compléter notre approche de la mémoire collective à Rome et de ses vecteurs de diffusion d'une communication politique remarquable (de l'affichage public aux espaces privés).

Source : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion

Richard Rolle, Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum / Glosses on the Nine Lessons of the Dead, éd. Andrew Kraebel, Turnhout, 2025.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Studies and Texts, 238
clvi + 260 pages
ISBN : 978-0-88844-238-3
121 € EXCL. VAT

This volume offers a critical edition and translation of one of Richard Rolle's final Latin writings, together with an extensive historical introduction, notes, and commentary. Rolle works carefully through each word and phrase of the nine passages from Job read in Matins in the Office of the Dead, showing how Job's words could and perhaps should be read and prayed by a true contemplative. By turns preacherly and scholarly, precise and powerfully affective, with frequent recourse to the rapturous experiences of divine love that are now considered the hallmarks of Rolle's mysticism, this late work made the hermit's own preparation for death available for reflection and emulation. This work's influence on the educated English clergy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries made it a major contributor to Christian attitudes toward death and dying in the later medieval English Church.

Source : Brepols

Lisa Cordes, Marco Formisano et Janja Soldo (éd.), Italo Calvino and Classics. Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Leyde-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Mnemosyne, Supplements, 488
X-363 pages
ISBN : 978-90-04-71508-0
125,55 €

In his Memos for the Next Millennium, the Italian writer Italo Calvino identified five literary qualities that should accompany writers and readers into the literature of the future: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity. Though never finished, the Memos continue to inspire readers and scholars. This volume turns three of Calvino's poetic qualities – lightness, quickness, multiplicity – into powerful hermeneutic strategies for reading ancient and late antique texts, ranging widely from Homer's Iliad to Claudian's carmina minora. It is the first book to read ancient literature through the lens of Calvino's Memos, thus fostering a new discussion of the interactions between modern and ancient texts as well as between methodologies.

Source : Brill

Christoph Pieper et Verena Schulz (éd.), Forgetting and Power in Greek and Latin Literature, Stuttgart, 2025.

Éditeur : Franz Steiner Verlag
Collection : Palingenesia, 145
317 pages
ISBN : 978-3-515-14020-1
70 €

Forgetting pervades Greek and Roman culture: it shapes the underworld, divine spheres, and human life. Forgetting stands at the beginning of life, when the souls of the dead drink forgetfulness from the river Lethe in the underworld before they are reborn. In Hesiod, Lethe (Forgetfulness) is personified as a goddess, the daughter of Eris (Strife). In Ovid, lovers seeking to forget an unhappy love affair turn to the god Amor Lethaeus for help.

Ioannis Deligiannis, Herodoti Historia per Matthiam Palmierum Pisanum e Graeco in Latinum versa. The Latin Translation of Herodotus' ›Histories‹ by Mattia Palmieri, Berlin-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Transmissions, 13
IX-740 pages
ISBN : 9783110682311
139,95 €

The book contains the editio princeps of Mattia Palmieri's mid-fifteenth-century Latin translation of Herodotus' Histories, almost contemporary or even earlier than that by Lorenzo Valla. It also investigates the intellectual and historical milieu in which Palmieri produced it as preparatory work for his historical works and to secure patronage under a church prelate by offering it to Cardinal Prospero Colonna. It includes some information on Palmieri's life and work and Herodotus' fortuna, a brief comparison between Palmieri's and Valla's translations, Palmieri's Greek model and Livy's influence on him in language and style. It finally approaches some methodological issues related to editing a text preserved in authorially revised versions, because the translation shows three different stages of revision. This first approach of Herodotus by Western scholars is significant, because Herodotus was foremost read as a quarry of information of ethnographical, geographical, historical and anthropological nature, in order for the Europeans to understand peoples they encountered on their exploratory voyages and the Ottomans, who were considered as descendants of the Persians.

Source : De Gruyter Brill