Ann-Kathrin Stähle got her doctorate at the University of Basel (2022, summa cum laude, supervisor Prof. Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer): ‘…quid poema frangat? Zur Poetik des Bruchs in den Carmina des Sidonius Apollinaris’.
All About the Terminology of Christian Buildings
Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard has put out a detailed study of the terminology of Christian buildings: Naissance du discours sur les édifices chrétiens dans la littérature latine occidentale: d’Ambroise de Milan à Grégoire de Tours, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.
Here goes to the publisher’s catalogue
As to Sidonius, the book discusses: Les descriptions d’édifices religieux dans l’œuvre de Sidoine Apollinaire | Les vers consacrés à la description de l’église de Lyon, à la demande de l’évêque Patiens et leur présentation par Sidoine, Lettre 2, 10, 2-4 | Nouvelle évocation de l’œuvre édificatrice de Patiens de Lyon, Lettre 6, 12, 3-4 | Évocation de la reconstruction (ou agrandissement) de la basilique Saint-Martin de Tours et les vers que Sidoine a composés à ce sujet à la demande de l’évêque Perpetuus, Lettre 4, 18, 4 | Autres passages de Sidoine Apollinaire évoquant avec un certain degré de précision des édifices religieux.
Its second part is a full glossary of the vocabulary of the description of Christian buildings.
Presentation Santelia and Marolla 30 Oct.
Invitation to the presentation of Stefania Santelia’s and Giulia Marolla’s recent commentaries
Venue: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Palazzo Ateneo, Aula Magna
Date, time: 30 October 2023, 15:30 h.
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Arturo De Vivo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Scuola Superiore Meridionale) will present the volume:
— Sidonio Apollinare: Carmina Minora. Testo, traduzione e note a cura di Stefania Santelia. Saggio introduttivo di Silvia Condorelli
Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) presents the volume:
— Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1. Text, Translation and Commentary by Giulia Marolla
Further explanation by the authors. Chair: Rosa Alba Dimundo.
Meurer on Social Time Issues
Tabea Meurer writes on ‘Spatia vitae. Social Time Issues in Sidonius’ in the latest issue of Hermes 151/4 (2023) 467-89.
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Tradition and New Authors: 26-27 October
Sara Fascione organizes an International Conference “Tradizione e nuovi auctores della Tarda Antichità” at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II on 26-27 October 2023.
For registration and Zoom link please write to sara.fascione AT unina.it
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26 October 2023
15.30 Welcome
15.50 Introduction: Sara Fascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Chair: Marisa Squillante
16.00 Jean-Louis Charlet, Université Aix-Marseille
Alcuni aspetti del dialogo culturale tra poeti latini della Tarda Antichità
16.30 Luca Mondin, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Dicendi arte nova parem vetustis: la celebrazione dei nuovi auctores nella poesia tardolatina
Chair: Lucio De Giovanni
17.00 Andrea Pellizzari, Università degli Studi di Torino
Il lessico dell’agronomia nella scoliastica tardoantica: prestiti e confronti letterari
17.30 Sara Fascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Nullo veterum minor noster Symmachus. Leggere Simmaco in un mondo in cambiamento
18.00 Discussion
27 October 2023
Chair: Luca Mondin
9.00 Pierre Descotes, Université Paris-Sorbonne – Institut d’Études Augustiniennes
Hilaire, Cyprien, Tychonius: une discussion sur l’autorité d’auteurs ‘récents’ dans l’epistula 93 d’Augustin d’Hippone
9.30 Gavin Kelly, University of Edinburgh
The Latin secular historians of the fourth century and their early reception
10.00 Umberto Roberto, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Tradizione e nuovi modelli nella riflessione storico-politica dell’aristocrazia senatoria di Roma tra quarto e quinto secolo: la rappresentazione di Domiziano e Diocleziano
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 coffee break
Chair: Chiara Renda
11.30 Silvia Condorelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Sidonio Apollinare e Paolino di Périgueux: consonanze poetiche
12.00 Alfredo Mario Morelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Lussorio e gli auctores epigrammatici latini tardo-antichi
12.30 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14.30 Conclusion and final remarks: Claudio Buongiovanni, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Wood on the Visigothic Court
New from Ian Wood: ‘The Development of the Visigothic Court in the Hagiography of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries’, in: Damián Fernández, Mollie Lester and Jamie Wood (eds), Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii, Amsterdam: AUP, 2023, 53-72.
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Marolla on the Names of Addressees
Published online in Mnemosyne: Giulia Marolla, ‘The Names of Sidonius’ Addressees and the Manuscript Tradition of the Letters’.
Williard on the Scale of Communication
Hope Williard (Utrecht University) wrote ‘Letter Carriers and the Scale of Communication in the Epistolae of Sidonius Apollinaris’ for Kristina Sessa and Kevin Uhalde (eds), Scale and the Study of Late Antiquity, Munera 53, Bari: Edipuglia, 2023, 153-67.
Catalogue volume here
Preprint version article on Academia here
Santelia Translates Carmina minora
Another milestone in Sidonius scholarship has been reached: the first complete Italian translation of the Carmina minora by Stefania Santelia, with her text and explanatory notes. Silvia Condorelli wrote the introduction. Full title: Sidonio Apollinare. Carmina minora. Testo, traduzione e note a cura di Stefania Santelia. Saggio introduttivo di Silvia Condorelli, Studi latini n.s. 97, Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2023.
Available here.
Furbetta on the Correspondence’s Social Function
Luciana Furbetta, ‘L’écriture “en réseau”. Réflexions sur la fonction “socio-stylistique” de la correspondance de Sidoine Apollinaire’, Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Moyen Âge 135 (2023) 171-89.
Here online