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Wilhelm Kühlmann (éd.), Drogenpoesie der Frühen Neuzeit. Studien und Editionen zur Literaturgeschichte von Tabak, Wein, Bier und Kaffee, Berlin-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Frühe Neuzeit, 259
VI-331 pages
ISBN : 978-3-1115-8134-7
109,95 € (e-book on Open access)


This volume brings together annotated editions and interpretations of Early Modern literature about tobacco, beer, wine, and coffee. It includes New Latin and German panegyric poems praising Tokaji wine or beer from Nordhausen, for instance, but also texts opposing the consumption of tobacco and alcohol. The collection thus offers a cultural-historical perspective on current debates surrounding the legalization of intoxicants.

Source : De Gruyter Brill

Pierre de Jean Olivi, La conscience. Summa, II, q. 75-86. Impugnatio, art. 19. Introduction, traduction et notes par Stève Bobillier et Véronique Decaix, Paris, 2025.

Éditeur : Vrin
Collection : Translatio
398 pages
ISBN : 978-2-7116-3183-4
16 €

Ce livre fournit la première traduction en langue française des questions 75-86 du deuxième livre des Sentences et l'article 19 de l'Impugnatio de Pierre de Jean Olivi (1248-1298), franciscain connu pour ses prises de positions radicales notamment sur la liberté et l'usage pauvre. Les textes présentés ici sont consacrés à la conscience, à la fois comme connaissance première du sujet et comme fondement de la morale. Olivi y fait montre d'une originalité susceptible de remettre en perspective certaines catégories de l'Histoire de la philosophie, en particulier celle de modernité.

Source : Vrin

Frédérique Fleck (dir.), Lalies 43, Paris, 2025.

Éditeur : Rue d'Ulm
Collection : Lalies
196 pages
ISBN : 978-2-7288-0895-3
28,00 €

Ce nouveau numéro propose une présentation des théories poétiques néo-latines ; une description de la langue birmane, qui appartient à la famille tibéto-birmane ; et une étude de la syntaxe des langues indo-européennes dans une perspective à la fois historique et comparative. La section des varia contient notamment un article consacré à la linguistique historique du chinois. La revue est disponible sur OpenEdition.

Source : Éditions Rue d'Ulm

Maria Barbara Savo, Gabriella Ottone et Breno Battistin Sebastiani (éd.), Changing the Greek World. Scenari di trasformazione nel secolo di Alessandro, Coimbra, 2025.

Éditeur : Coimbra University Press
Collection : Humanitas Supplementum. Estudos Monográficos
308 pages
ISBN : 978‑989‑26‑2678‑9
En accès libre : https://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/view/537/1261/2163-1

The 4th century B.C. can be considered a saeculum breve, compressed between the end of a pan-Hellenic conflict, which had decreed the failure of a radical democracy, and the establishment of the Macedonian kingdom. In between, the critical reflection of a society, such as the Athenian society, incapable of accepting a secondary role in the political, economic and cultural history of the Hellas, and which reacts by attempting to readapt the old schemes of its golden age to the new feeling of Greek man. The twelve contributions collected in this volume aim to highlight various aspects of those changes characterizing an extraordinary period, a veritable building site for the creation of a new world.

Source : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra - Catalog

Michele Rinaldi (éd.), Giovanni Pontano, Commentationes in centum sententiis Ptolemaei: A Critical Edition, Turnhout, 2025.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus - Texts, vol. 5
372 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-61016-0
85 € (Η.Τ.)

The first critical edition of Giovanni Pontano's Commentationes in centum sententiis Ptolemaei (c. 1473-1490), the most influential commentary on Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

With more than two hundred extant manuscripts, Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium undoubtedly is one of the most popular works of Western Latin astrology. The Commentationes in centum sententiis Ptolemaei is an astrological work in two books in which Giovanni Pontano provides an extensive commentary on the Centiloquium along with his own translation of the original text from Greek. The first book is addressed to the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, and the second one to Pontano's close friend and member of the Neapolitan Academy Pietro Golino (Petrus Compater). Pontano undertook the work in 1477 and kept supplementing and revising it until 1490. The Commentationes had a substantial impact on the astrological literature of the 15th-17th centuries. Published posthumously in 1512 by Pietro Summonte ‒ but previously widespread through a noteworthy manuscript tradition ‒ it was reprinted over twenty times until 1674 and became the standard Latin translation of the Centiloquium. While ‒ together with the De rebus coelestibus ‒ it represents the most challenging of Pontano's astrological prose, up to date, the Commentationes has never been published in a critical edition nor studied in its textual history.

Johannes Sleidanus, De quatuor summis imperiis libri tres – Die vier Weltreiche. In drei Büchern, 
herausgegeben, übersetzt und erläutert von Lothar Mundt, Berlin-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Frühe Neuzeit, 258
VIII-484 pages
ISBN : 978-3-1115-4459-5
119,95 €

German historian Johannes Sleidanus's overview of the history of the four empires was the leading textbook on world history for university and grammar school students of the Empire from the mid-sixteenth to early eighteenth century. Alongside the source references provided by Heinrich Meibom the Elder, this edition provides revealing insights into the scope of historiographical knowledge in the Early Modern era.

Source : De Gruyter Brill