Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte
EARLY MODERN AND MODERN COMMENTARIES ON VIRGIL
June 14-16, 2021
An Online Conference
Link Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81909339883
All times are CEST (Rome time).
For more information: casali@uniroma2.it
Monday, June 14, 2pm-2:20pm
Welcoming words by EMORE PAOLI (Director of the Department of Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) and introduction by SERGIO CASALI
SESSION 1
Monday, June 14, 2:20pm-5pm
Chair: VIRGILIO COSTA (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
DAVID WILSON-OKAMURA (East Carolina University)
Afterimages of Lucretius
FABIO STOK (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
Commenting on Virgil in the 15th Century: from Barzizza (?) to Parrasio (?)-I
GIANCARLO ABBAMONTE (Università di Napoli Federico II)
Commenting on Virgil in the 15th Century: from Barzizza (?) to Parrasio (?)-II
NICOLA LANZARONE (Università di Salerno)
Il commento di Pomponio Leto all’Eneide: sondaggi relativi ad Aen. 1 e 2
5pm-5:20pm
Break
SESSION 2
Monday, June 14, 5:20pm-8pm
Chair: EMANUELE DETTORI (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
PETER KNOX (Case Western Reserve University)
What if Poliziano Had Written a Commentary on Virgil?
PAUL WHITE (University of Leeds)
Badius’s Virgil Commentary in the Context of Humanist Education
ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Petrus Nannius as an Interpreter of Virgil: the Commentary on the Eclogues
SERGIO CASALI (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
Petrus Nannius as an Interpreter of Virgil: the Commentary on Aeneid 4
SESSION 3
Tuesday, June 15, 2pm-4:40pm
Chair: JOHN F. MILLER (University of Virginia)
CRAIG KALLENDORF (Texas A&M University)
Virgil’s Unluckiest Commentator? Iodocus Willichius and His Times
FEDERICA BESSONE (Università di Torino)
Spiegare Virgilio con i suoi successori. I commenti virgiliani sulle tracce di Stazio
VIOLA STARNONE (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)
The Metamorphoses of Virgil: Early Modern Responses
VASSILIKI PANOUSSI (College of William & Mary)
Egypt and Africa in the Early Modern Commentaries
4:40pm-5pm
Break
SESSION 4
Tuesday, June 15, 5pm-7:40pm
Chair: IRENE PEIRANO GARRISON (Harvard University)
UTE TISCHER (Universität Leipzig)
Author Strategies in Collected Editions of Printed Commentaries on Virgil in Early Modern and Modern Times
JOSEPH FARRELL (University of Pennsylvania)
Rediscovering the Rediscovery of Homer in Vergil Commentaries, Half a Century On
MONIQUE BOUQUET (Université de Rennes 2 - CELLAM)
La Poétique d’Aristote comme clé de lecture de l’Énéide de Virgile dans les In librum Aristotelis de arte poetica explicationes de Francesco Robortello
PHILIP HARDIE (University of Cambridge)
MetaVirgilian Commentaries, with Particular Reference to Abraham Cowley
SESSION 5
Wednesday, June 16, 2pm-4:40pm
Chair: BARBARA WEIDEN BOYD (Bowdoin College)
YASMIN HASKELL (University of Western Australia)
Virgil Vindicated: Jesuit Praelections, Prolusions, Corrections and Exclusions
GIAN BIAGIO CONTE (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Considerazioni sul Commentario a Virgilio di C. G. Heyne
RICHARD F. THOMAS (Harvard University)
Between Heyne and Conington from the Land of the Fairies: Thomas Keightley’s Eclogues and Georgics
STEPHEN HARRISON (University of Oxford)
Victorian Virgil: John Conington and Henry Nettleship’s Commentary (1858-82)
4:40pm-5pm
Break
SESSION 6
Wednesday, June 16, 5pm-7:40pm
Chair: SHADI BARTSCH (University of Chicago)
ALISON KEITH (University of Toronto)
Epicureana in Virgil Commentaries
LUIGI GALASSO (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
Su cosa si fonda l’Oltretomba. La dialettica commento-saggio da Norden a oggi
ALEXANDER ROGUINSKY (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) & MIKHAIL SHUMILIN (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, / A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences / National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Textual Criticism in Russian Language Commentaries on Classical Latin Poetry: The Case of Valery Bryusov’s Projected Commentary on Aeneid 2
JAMES O’HARA (University of North Carolina)
Adventures in Writing and Editing a Group Classroom Commentary: the Focus-Hackett Aeneid Project