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Leonardo Cazzadori, The Teaching Poet. Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Hellenistic Didactic Poetry, Tübingen, 2025.

Éditeur : Mohr Siebeck
Collection : Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature, 5
281 pages
ISBN : 978-3-16-164677-5
99 €

Leonardo Cazzadori presents the first comprehensive and comparative study of Greek didactic poetry from the Hellenistic period (ca. 350–30 B.C.). He traces the intellectual history of didactic poetry, analysing ancient and modern implications of this literary category. The author further investigates the rhetorical and stylistic features of Hellenistic didactic poetry, shedding light on the textual strategies that shape and define its instructional and explanatory function. He argues that Hellenistic didactic poetry played a crucial role in establishing a new poetic domain – one that enabled the popularization of scientific discourse and fostered imaginative and insightful descriptions. By examining this innovative poetic form, Leonardo Cazzadori offers fresh perspectives on ancient Greek literary culture, and, more broadly, the interactions between science, the natural world, and literature.

James H. Kane et Keagan J. Brewer, The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre , Londres, 2025.

Éditeur : Routledge
Collection : Crusade Texts in Translation
XVII-343 pages
ISBN : 978-0-367-48965-6
£ 145.00

William of Tyre's monumental twelfth-century history of the First Crusade and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem inspired a rich series of interrelated Old French continuations that proved very popular in the later Middle Ages. In contrast to the thriving literary afterlife that William's work enjoyed in the vernacular, however, only one continuation of the text is known to have survived in Latin, the language in which William himself wrote.

Othmar Luscinius, Grunnius Sophista – Grogneur le Sophiste. Édité et traduit par Marc Dietrich, Genève, 2025.

Éditeur : Droz
Collection : Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
408 pages
ISBN : 978-2-600-06601-3
59 €

En décembre 1522, l'humaniste strasbourgeois Othmar Nachtgall (v. 1480-1537) fait paraître, sous son pseudonyme « Luscinius », un curieux dialogue néo-latin qui interroge à la fois le rôle de la poésie et la condition respective de l'homme et de l'animal. Le Grunnius Sophista, exemple précoce de dialogue animalier à la Renaissance, met en scène la rencontre incongrue entre Misobarbarus, défenseur des « bonnes lettres », et Grunnius, ancien sophiste transformé en cochon qui pourfend l'érudition, tout en maîtrisant ses usages. Ce dialogue satirico-philosophique est suivi d'une amplification facétieuse du Testamentum porcelli, document anonyme de la fin de l'Antiquité d'où vient le personnage du cochon-sophiste. Ces textes foisonnants forment une œuvre originale et polyphonique, placée sous la tutelle d'Érasme. Le présent livre en fournit l'édition et la traduction française, il retrace le parcours de son auteur, explore la genèse et analyse les enjeux culturels du « diptyque de Grunnius ».

Source : Droz

Andrew R. Dyck, A Commentary on Cicero, De Natura Deorum II, Ann Arbor, 2025.

Éditeur : University of Michigan Press
Collection : Michigan Classical Commentaries
422 pages
ISBN : 9780472074839
$ 95.00

Distinguished Latinist Andrew R. Dyck presents the first English commentary on Cicero's De Natura Deorum II in over fifty years. This text is the only connected exposition of Stoic theology to survive from the ancient world. It includes an argument for the existence of the gods from the construction of the cosmos taken up by later thinkers, as well as an exposition of the world-order and divine providence according to Stoic doctrine. After a period in which Cicero's philosophical works were treated mainly as sources for reconstructing the thought of earlier philosophers, they are now coming to be appreciated as intelligent and skillful works in their own right. This book will assist students and others studying Cicero's De Natura Deorum II by providing its historical context, improved Latin text, and a detailed commentary with references to the latest literature on the subject.

Francesco Lubian, Gerolamo, Ad Laetam de institutione filiae (epist. 107). Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento, Berlin-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 420
VI-322 pages
ISBN : 978-3-1114-7473-1
109,95 €

The last two decades have seen a growing interest in Jerome's epistolary, with the publication of several commentaries on single letters; however, no full-scale study has so far been devoted to Epistle 107, Ad Laetam de institutione filiae. This didactic and parenetic letter, addressed to the Roman noblewoman Laeta around 401-402 AD, is indeed among the most relevant pieces of Jerome's letter collection, and while it has aroused the interest of scholars interested in the problems of Late Antique pedagogy and female virginity, it has so far received limited attention on a philological and literary level.

Francesco Roberg, Antidotarium Nicolai. Studien zu Textgestalt, Werkbildung und Überlieferung. Mit synoptischer Arbeitsedition, Florence, 2025.

Éditeur : SISMEL - Éditions del Galluzzo
Collection : Micrologus Library, 128 ; La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 11
IX-582 pages
ISBN : 978-88-9290-393-7
82 €

Das Antidotarium Nicolai ist das wirkmächtigste Antidotar des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Der Text ist in nahezu alle Volkssprachen Europas wie auch ins Hebräische und Arabische übertragen und bereits 1471 gedruckt worden. Die lateinische handschriftliche Überlieferung dürfte im vierstelligen Bereich liegen.
In krassem Widerspruch zu seiner Bedeutung ist der Stand der Erforschung des Textes, der als äußerst mangelhaft zu charakterisieren ist. Das beginnt mit der völlig unklaren Textgestalt auf Detail- und Gesamtebene, setzt sich mit den Problemen rund um Autorschaft, Entstehungszeitpunkt und -ort fort und mündet schließlich in Fragen nach der konkreten Bedeutung einzelner Teile und der Umsetzung der in ihnen genannten Bestimmungen in die Praxis.