On April, 21th, the edited volume “Neo-Latin contexts in Croatia and Tyrol: challenges, prospects, case studies”, co-edited by two members of the LBI, Lav Subaric and Johanna Luggin, has been presented at the 28thColloquium Marulianum in Split.
On Wednesday, 9th May 2018, Wolfgang Schmale gave the talk:
Europa – die männliche Form. Ein geschlechtergeschichtlicher Blick auf die Identifizierung Europas im 18. Jahrhundert als Zivilisation
The talk was followed by a discussion.
The LBI was applying for a third party funded project on Basinio da Parma's epic poem Hesperis with the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). This year, the project has been granted, and starting on 1 August 2018, the team around Anna Chisena, Marco Petolicchio, and Florian Schaffenrath will work on this critical edition. What is the project about?
Following an official invitation of the Austrian Embassy in Albania and the Austria Library (Österreich-Bibliothek) at Shkodra, Stefan Zathammer presented his book "Marinus Barletius, De obsidione Scodreni" (published with Holzahusen Vienna in 2017, cf. http://buch.verlagholzhausen.at/) at the university library of Shkodra on April 18, 2018.
On Monday, 23rd April 2018, Alejandro Coroleu Lletget gave the talk:
The Dissemination of Angelo Poliziano’s Latin Works in the German-Speaking Territories (1500-1550): Two Viennese Case-Studies
The talk was by a discussion.
On Wednesday, 11th April 2018, Dr. habil. Péter Kasza gave the talk:
The Royal Historiographer of I. Ferdinand Wolfgang Lazius and his Forgotten Work Rerum Austriacarum Decades
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Wednesday, 28th March 2018, Ruth Miguel Franco gave the talk:
And Lorenzo Changed His Mind: Compositive Layers in the 1st Book of Lorenzo Valla’s Elegantie Lingue Latine
The talk was followed by a discussion.
"This study provides a critical edition of the Pervigilium Veneris with a Latin text, translation and commentary. This late-antique poem, the 'Vigil of Venus', is of unknown date and authorship. It exists in four heavily corrupted manuscripts, including the Codex Salmasianus, as part of a collection of later Latin poetry compiled around the 6th Century AD.
On Thursday, 22nd March 2018, Federica Rossetti gave the talk:
Satire and Comedy in the Italian Humanism Defining Literary Genres in the 15th Century
The talk was followed by a discussion.