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Per limina conference

Date

06 Dec 2024, 13:30 – 07 Dec 2024, 20:00

Location

6020 Innsbruck, Innrain 52, first floor Aula on friday; Innrain 52a, first floor Seminarraum 13 on saturday

Per limina. Printed Paratexts and the Intellectual Networks of Humanism (15th – 18th centuries), 6 – 7 December 2024, University of Innsbruck

Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to bring to your attention the upcoming international workshop “Per limina. Printed Paratexts and the Intellectual Networks of Humanism (15th – 18th centuries)”, to be held on December 6 – 7 2024, in Innsbruck.
This interdisciplinary two-day event aims to bring together scholars working on Greek and Latin paratexts in Humanist prints from the 15th to the 18th century, in order to explore the heuristic potential of the “liminal” spaces shaped by prefaces, dedications, introductory poems, letters, commentaries, marginalia, indexes, and epilogues in books of this period. The conference seeks to approach such texts not only as sources for social and intellectual history, but also as literary works of art, material objects, and often-overlooked elements of editorial practice.

We are looking forward to a stimulating exchange of ideas and perspectives.

Programme:
Friday, 6 December 2024, University of Innsbruck (Aula – Main Building, Innrain 52, 1st floor)

13.30 Come together
14.00 Domenico Graziano (Naples Federico II/Innsbruck), Lukas Spielhofer (Heidelberg):
Welcome and introduction

1) Shaping and Reshaping Paratexts
14.30 Irina Tautschnig (York):
(Not) My Paratext: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Threshold of the Book after Publication

15.15 Luca Hollenborg (Zurich):
Paratexts in Joachim Vadianus’ Hortulus editions (Vienna 1510 and Nuremberg 1512)

16.00 Discussion and coffee break

2) Paratexts between Tradition and Transformation
16.30 Ambra Marzocchi (Brown):
Is there Poliziano’s Watermark in Erasmus’ Preface to the Praise of Folly ? The alba linea between furtum and Homage in the Humanists’ respublica

17.15 Jenni Glaser (Bryn Mawr):
Plus arte quam Marte: Lucianic Ecphrasis, Illustration, and Paratextual Reinterpretation in Jean Baudoin’s 1613 Edition

18.00 Discussion and coffee break

3) Keynote
18.30 Ann Blair (Harvard):
The Varied Purposes of Paratexts in Print: Erasmus and Conrad Gessner

19.30 Discussion

20.00 Buffet dinner

Saturday, 7 December 2024 (Seminarraum 13 – Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52a, 1st floor)

4) Paratexts as Philological Fingerprints
10.30 Federica Rossetti (Innsbruck):
Textual Criticism in the 16th-century Printed Editions of Seneca. Paratextual Mechanisms for the Sake of Philology

11.15 Matías Fernandez Robbio (Cuyo):
Paratexts and Paratextual Information in the Printed Tradition of the Greek Anthology

12.00 Discussion and lunch break

5) Paratexts as a Medium of Self-fashioning
13.30 Ingrid De Smet (Warwick):
Friends, Patrons, and Printers: the Paratextual World of Franciscus Modius Revisited

14.15 Alessandro Bonvini (Leuven):
Shaping the Self through Paratexts: Federigo Nomi’s Liber Satyrarum sexdecim (1703)

15.00 Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute, London):
The “Self-translator Function”: Claims of Self-translation in Early Modern Paratext and their Purposes

15.45 Discussion and coffee break

6) Frames of Reception: Audience and Authority
16.15 Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck):
Introducing a Women’s Book: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia (1650) between Self-translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power

17.00 Benjamin Driver (Brown):
Encomium, Apotheosis, and Classical Allusion in the Paratexts of the Copernican Revolution

17.45 Nicoletta Bruno (Basel/Liverpool):
The New World for Europe and Latin for the New World. Antonio Nebrija’s Preface to Peter Martyr D’Anghiera’s De Orbe Novo Decades

18.30 Final discussion and closing remarks

If you are interested in attending – either in person or online – please pre-register via creyvzvan2024@tznvy.pbz.

Best wishes,
Domenico Graziano and Lukas Spielhofer