Vendredi, 27 Mai 2022 08:02
Jacques Elfassi

Horace, Odes Book III. Edited by Anthony John Woodman, Cambridge, 2021.
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press Collection : Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics XIII-398 pages ISBN : 9781108740548 £ 24.99
Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so-called 'Roman Odes', those defining texts of the Augustan Age, and concludes with the statement of his achievement: he has produced for his Roman readers a body of lyric poetry to rival the great lyric poets of Greece, a monument which will last as long as Rome itself. The present volume aims to place Horace's Odes in their literary and historical context, to explain his Latin, to articulate his thought, and to attempt to elucidate his brilliance. It presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of earlier commentators.
Source : Cambridge University Press
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Mercredi, 25 Mai 2022 08:02
Jacques Elfassi

Albertino Mussato, De lite inter Naturam et Fortunam. Edizione critica, traduzione e commento a cura di Bianca Facchini, Florence, 2021.
Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo Collection : Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Mediolatini d'Italia, 60 VI-372 pages ISBN : 978-88-8450-966-6 76 €
Nel 1325 Albertino Mussato, scrittore e personaggio politico padovano, fu esiliato definitivamente dalla sua città e si ritirò a Chioggia, dove trascorse gli ultimi anni di vita e attività letteraria. A questa ultima stagione creativa si deve il De lite inter Naturam et Fortunam, un dialogo filosofico vòlto a indagare l'influenza relativa di Natura e Fortuna sulle sorti dell'universo, sulla storia e sulla vita umana, nonché il rapporto tra contingenza e necessità e il problema dell'eventuale esistenza del fato. La disputa tra Natura e Fortuna tocca una molteplicità di argomenti, richiamati anche mediante il filtro delle fonti antiche e medievali e giustapposti al ritmo vivace del dialogo, dove i toni pacati della disquisizione intellettuale si alternano a quelli pungenti dell'invettiva: l'opera affronta diversi temi di filosofia morale, ripercorre le vicende personali dell'autore e offre un affresco, a tratti cupo, della storia politica a lui contemporanea. Il presente volume contiene la prima edizione critica e traduzione italiana del dialogo mussatiano, finora inedito nel suo complesso.
Source : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo
Lundi, 23 Mai 2022 08:00
Jacques Elfassi

Martinus Schoockius, Encomium Surditatis – Lob der Schwerhörigkeit (1650). Einführung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar von Eckard Lefèvre, Berlin-Boston, 2021.
Éditeur : De Gruyter Collection : Frühe Neuzeit, 241 XIII-151 pages ISBN : 9783110731804 89,95 €
This is the first modern critical edition and German translation of Surditatis encomium (In Praise of Deafness), written in Latin by Martinus Schoockius (1614–1669). Alongside a brief portrait of the Dutch author and polymath, an introduction and commentary locate the text within the genre tradition of ironic encomia and reveal its connections to discourses of disease in the early modern period.
Source : De Gruyter
Vendredi, 20 Mai 2022 08:04
Jacques Elfassi

Andrew Cain et Gregory Hays (éd.), Omnium Magistra Virtutum. Studies in Honour of Danuta Shanzer, Turnhout, 2022.
Éditeur : Brepols Collection : Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 15 485 pages ISBN : 978-2-503-59844-4 95 €
Studies by twenty-seven scholars in honor of the distinguished Latinist Danuta Shanzer. Over the course of her career Danuta Shanzer has contributed multifariously to the study of late antique and medieval Latin, as scholar, teacher, conference organizer, and journal and series editor. Author of a ground-breaking commentary on Book 1 of Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii and co-translator (with Ian Wood) of the letters of Avitus of Vienne, she has produced important articles on a wide range of Latin authors and texts, from Augustine to Gregory of Tours. The contributors to this volume honour Shanzer's achievement with studies related to her scholarly interests.
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Mercredi, 18 Mai 2022 08:01
Jacques Elfassi

Cicero, Pro Milone. Edited by Thomas J. Keeline, Cambridge, 2021.
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press Collection : Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 400 pages ISBN : 9781316631447 £ 24.99
The Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving every major political figure of the day. Although Cicero's defense failed, the published speech remains one of his finest, a fascinating document from a turbulent time, full of interest both historical and rhetorical. This edition, aimed at students and scholars alike, provides readers with the help that they need to appreciate the speech as a literary masterpiece and a historical text. Including a comprehensive introduction and a newly constituted Latin text, it provides detailed treatment of Cicero's language, style, and rhetorical techniques, as well as full discussion of the historical background and the larger social and cultural issues relevant to the speech.
Source : Cambridge University Press
Mercredi, 11 Mai 2022 08:00
Jacques Elfassi

Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum. Saec. IV-IX. IV. Rhythmi Computistici. I. Anni Domini notantur in praesenti linea. Edizione critica e traduzione a cura di Chiara Savini e Irene Volpi. Edizione musicale di Sam Barrett. Revisione di Francesco Stella, Florence, 2021.
Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo Collection : Millennio Medievale, 122 ; Testi, 34 XVI-206 pages ISBN : 978-88-9290-136-0 42 €
Il volume presenta l'edizione critica del ritmo mnemotecnico Anni Domini notantur basata su ventisei testimoni manoscritti e uno a stampa del 1612. L'edizione, provvista di traduzione, apparato critico negativo ed esplicitazione delle fonti, è preceduta da una breve storia del genere letterario e della sua funzione nel campo delle scienze computistiche, dalla descrizione di tutti i testimoni manoscritti, da un profilo ecdotico e dall'analisi metrica, musicale e contenutistica del componimento, con una approfondita annotazione degli elementi computistici.
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Lundi, 09 Mai 2022 08:02
Jacques Elfassi

Wilhelm Kühlmann et Karl Wilhelm Beichert, Literarisches Leben zwischen Rhein und Main. Der Wertheimer Dichter, Schulmann und Rentmeister Nikolaus Rüdinger (ca. 1530–1581) im Netzwerk des pfälzischen Späthumanismus, Berlin-Boston, 2021.
Éditeur : De Gruyter Collection : Frühe Neuzeit, 240 X-372 pages ISBN : 9783110723632 109,95 €
This monograph – which stands out due to its use of archival documents, editions, translations, commentaries, and interpretations – introduces the school principal, Latin poet, and comital treasurer N. Rüdinger, one of the key figures of late Palatine humanism, who has thus far received too little attention. It presents his critical satires, casual poetry, and elegiac bible adaptations in the context of the ancient and early modern periods.
Source : De Gruyter
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