Tag: Fascione Sara

Fascione, Mondin on Horatian Metres

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

Fascione Reading Latin Letter Collections

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.

Fascione’s Concatenantur Summarised

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.

Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections

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)