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.
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
Jeroen Wijnendaele has put out the edited volume Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum with Edinburgh’s EUP. Of particular interest to students of Sidonius is Adrastos Omissi’s chapter on Late Roman Italy in Latin Panegyric (pp. 454-74).
Tabea Meurer and Veronika Egetenmeyr have published a selection of the papers given at the Gallia docta? conference of March 2021 (Greifswald, online): Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul.
Contributions specifically concerning Sidonius include articles by Hendrik Hess, Judith Hindermann, Alison John, Gernot Michael Müller and Willum Westenholz. Joop van Waarden rounds off his ‘you’ and ‘I’ cycle.
Further details and an open access PDF here
Manuscript Paris IRHT, collection privée 347 (formerly Schøyen Collection 246; Dolveck #53 in the Sidonius Companion, p. 527), is now freely accessible online.
Ágnes Horváth, ‘Sidonius a középkor és a reneszánsz magyar irodalmában’, Antikvitás & Reneszánsz 9 (2022) 69-86, discusses Sidonius’ role in the Hungarian literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Read here
Ágnes T. Horváth, ‘Supplements to the Ancestry of Sidonius Apollinaris’, Chronica 22 (2023) 154-63, investigates Sidonius’ ancestry and the gens Sollia.
Mehmet Yilmazata wrote ‘Notes on Flavius Aetius, “The Last of the Romans”: A Representation in Historiography’, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 9 (2022) 53-75.
Online here
Ian Wood writes on Sidonius’ silence in his letters about activities mentioned in his epitaph:
Causarum moderans subinde motus
Leges barbarico dedit furori;
Discordantibus inter arma regnis
Pacem consilio reduxit amplo.
Ian Wood, ‘The Silence of Sidonius’, in: Alessandro Campus et al. (eds), Tempus Tacendi. Quando il silenzio comunica, Verona: Alteritas, 2023, 213-28.
Download the volume from Alteritas or from Academia
See also Wood 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021.
Àngel Rodríguez García writes on ‘Episcopal Correspondence in Fifth-Century Gaul: Leadership in Times of Crisis’, centered on Sidonius, in an edited volume (Not) All Roads Lead to Rome: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility in the Ancient World (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023), 168–178.
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