New Appointment
Sara Fascione has been recently appointed as ‘chargée de cours’ of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Liège, in Belgium. She will work on the letter collections by Fronto, Symmachus and, of course, Sidonius, trying to cast further light on the dynamics of reception and circulation of letter collections in late antiquity.
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
Download poster with programme here
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
Sara Fascione contributes ‘Secundum regulas Flacci. Orazio e il ritorno alla metrica nell’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare’ to Concetta Longobardi (ed.), Horatiana. La ricezione di Orazio dall’antichità al mondo moderno: le forme liriche, Pisa: ETS, 2022, 91-103.
In the same edited volume, Luca Mondin in ‘I metri oraziani nel quadro della polimetria tardoantica’ (pp. 11-62) has also much to say about Sidonius.
In the publisher’s catalogue
Sara Fascione has published a volume of conference papers: Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections (23-24 September 2021), Echo 38, Foggia: Il Castello Edizioni, 2022.
View the Introduction and ToC
Sidonius’ correspondence is among the collections analysed by Joop van Waarden in ‘The proportions of Latin letter collections: A probe’, pp. 61-74. Download the accompanying digital set of calculations and graphs.
Organised by Sara Fascione, the international conference Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae took place online on 23-24 September. Its proceedings will be published in the near future.
Sara summarised the results as follows:“Leitmotif of the conference has been the attempt to understand to what extent arrangement criteria are a relevant element to consider when reading a letter collection.
We saw that the concept of a letter collection itself is very fluid and that the types of arrangement criteria are numerous, and cannot always be classified. The fact that over half of the extant letter collections has no single and largely stable order in the manuscript tradition should always be considered when trying to find ordering patterns. Another element to take into account, as has emerged from the discussion, is the reader’s involvement in creating meaning when approaching a text. Any reading aiming at identifying an internal narrative, a logic in the progression of the letters, has a certain degree of subjectivity.
Nevertheless, the authors, or the editors, of the collections under consideration clearly evince the effort of creating consistency through different strategies. I think we have shown in the last two days that, even if the concepts of intentionality or authoriality still challenge scholars dealing with epistolography, arrangement in any form is used by authors or editors to make the collections into consistent wholes. Letters are really interlaced, as Ambrose’s statement on the ‘concatenatio’ lets infer; it is our task, as modern readers, to understand how.“
The definitive programme is available of the international conference
Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections
23-24 September 2021 on Zoom. Download here.
For registration write to the organiser, Sara Fascione
Sara Fascione has written an extensive overview of Lo specchio del modello for Plekos 23 (2021) 261-69. Download here.
Giulia Marolla reviews Sara Fascione’s “Gli ‘altri’ al potere” in Plekos 23 (2021) 237-41.
For registration please write to sara.fascione@unina.it
International Conference “Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections”
Date: 23-24 September 2021
Place: University Federico II, Naples, via Zoom
Organisation: Sara Fascione
The event is supported by the German Research Foundation within the Programme International Scientific Events
Confirmed speakers and moderators include:
Thomas J. Bauer (Universität Erfurt)
Lucio de Giovanni (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Arturo De Vivo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Sara Fascione (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Barbara Feichtinger (Universität Konstanz)
Bardo M. Gauly (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Roy Gibson (University of Durham)
Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh)
Helmut Krasser (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Concetta Longobardi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Gernot M. Müller (Universität Bonn)
Karen Piepenbrink (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Meike Rühl (Universität Osnabrück)
Marisa Squillante (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Joop van Waarden (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Peter von Möllendorff (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
