We are very happy for Dr. Bernhard Schirg (LBI fellow from August to September 2017) who has gained the "Freigeist"-Fellowship from the renowned Volkswagenstiftung!
Cf. https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/aktuelles-presse/aktuelles/aktdetne...
On Thursday, 7th September 2017, Akihiko Watanabe gave the talk:
Early Modern Japan, Neo-Latin, and European Classical Humanism
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo University; Japan), a collaborator in the project “Japan on the Jesuit Stage” spent a few days in Innsbruck (6-11 September 2017).
On Tuesday, 29th August 2017, Bobby Xinyue gave the talk:
The Politics of Neo-Latin Fasti
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Our former fellow Gerard Germain González who was in Innsbruck from October 2014 to January 2015 has published his edition of Agostino Vespucci's De situ ... Hispaniae libellus. The LBI congratulates!
Agostino Vespucci, A Description of All Spain. De situ, longitudine, forma et divisione totius Hispaniae libellus, critical edition, translation, introduction and notes ed. by Gerard González Germain, Roma, Viella, 2017, pp. VIII + 247.
Our former LBI fellow Lugi Silvano from Turin, who was in Innsbruck from November 2016 to January 2017, published a collection of essays on eduaction in early modern times. Congratulations!
Federica Ciccolella / Luigi Silvano (eds.): Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 264), Leiden: Brill, 2017.
On Thursday, July 20th 2017, Gábor Petneházi gave the talk:
The Black Legend of Hungary? Ferenc Forgách (1535–1577) and his Commentarii
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Thursday, June 29th 2017, Tommi Alho gave the talk:
Orationes et carmina aliaque exercitia: Performing and Learning Classical Languages in a Restoration Schoolroom
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Freiburg i. Br., 21.–23. September 2017
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
On Monday, June 19th 2017, Massimiliano Malavasi will gave talk:
Famiano Strada’s Momus: The Scholar versus the Poets of his Time
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Wednesday, June 14th 2017, Rocco Di Dio gave the talk:
Marsilio Ficino and the Renaissance Ideas of Beauty and Love: Preparatory Notes for the De Amore
The talk was followed by a discussion.