Patrizia Mascoli writes on ‘Le lettere commendaticiae in Sidonio Apollinare tra vita quotidiana e impegni istituzionali’ in Classica et Christiana 17 (2022) 555-67.
This issue 17/2 contains the Atti dell’XII convegno romeno-italiano: Tradizione e innovazione tra antichità classica e cristianesimo (Bari-Iaşi, 13-15 dicembre 2021) a cura di Nelu Zugravu. Download here.
Graham Robb, in his travel account France: An Adventure History, London: Picador, 2022, revives the ancient theory of the Lake of Sarliève (south-east of Clermont, surmounted by Gergovia) as the location of Avitacum (part 1, ch. 2 ‘A Home in Gaul’). Cf. Stevens 1933, 187-88, Trément 2007.
Link to the catalogue here
Luciana Furbetta contributed ‘L’usage des procédés rhétoriques et leur fonction communicative dans l’épigramme latine: l’“épigramme lettre” comme cas d’étude’ to Florence Garambois-Vasquez and Daniel Vallat (eds), Stylistique et poétique de l’épigramme latine. Nouvelles études, Lyon: MOM, 2022, 181-201. Examples are drawn from Ausonius, Sidonius (Carm. 17 and 20) and Venantius Fortunatus.
The publication is freely accessible on OpenEdition
In Early Medieval Europe first view, there is a review of the Companion by Mark Vessey:
– impeccably edited
– a work of reference which in the clarity and density of its coverage of a relatively compact oeuvre achieves a comprehensiveness scarcely conceivable for more historically influential figures
– speak[s] eloquently both for our own time and for what its authors agree in seeing as its subject’s mode of existence in his
– Sidonius has got the Companion he deserved.
Conchita Fernández López has published a new translation into Galician and Castilian, with Latin text, of the Pervigilium Veneris. She opts for a date of Summer 475/476 and the probability of Sidonius’ authorship:
Perviligum Veneris. Alborada de Venus. Vísperas de Amor. Texto y traducciones gallega y castellana de María Concepción Fernández López, Lugo: AXAC, 2020.
Item in catalogue Axac here.
Joop van Waarden has reviewed Filomena Giannotti’s Scrinia Arverna in CR First View 2022.
As part of the Celtic Conference (Lyon, 18-21 July), a panel, organised by Scott DiGiulio and Dominic Machado, will convene on “Poeticis magis decora? Latin Prose and the Limits of Intertextuality”. Joop van Waarden will be speaking on “Sidonius’ Journey to Rome at Ockham’s Razor’s Edge”.
Full programme on the conference website.
Alison John and Alan Ross will be organising a conference in Oxford on 8-9 July titled “Translation and the Limits of Greek-Latin Bilingualism in Late Antiquity”. Among other speakers, Filomena Giannotti will speak on “Challenging Decadence Through Translation. A Literary Example from Sidonius Apollinaris (Ep. 8.3) and his work on Philostratus’ Vita Apollonii”.
Programme and particulars here
Marco Formisano, in ‘The King Listens: Origins, Noises, and Panegyric in Sidonius Apollinaris’ Carmen 1’ (Arethusa 54 (2021) 275-90), contends “that the opening position of Carmen 1 is relevant, not only to its own interpretation, but also to the interpretation of the subsequent panegyric and to Sidonius’s poetry as a whole”. “Noise” precedes “meaning” in poetry, and in panegyric above all.
Go to this issue of Arethusa.
Out in the latest Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome: Massimiliano Vitiello, ‘The “Fear” of the Barbarians and the Fifth-Century Western Chroniclers’, MAAR 66 (2021) 115-50.
Read in JSTOR open access.
