On 17 November 2016, Jaroslaw Nowaszczuk organized a conference at the University of Szczecin on Iesuitae in Polonia - Poloni Iesuitae. De scriptis Latinis saeculi sexti decimi et septimi decimi (http://classica-mediaevalia.pl/2016/10/konferencja-iesuitae-in-polonia-p...). Speakers came from Poland, Rome, Germany, and Austria: Florian Schaffenrath gave a paper on The didactic poet Ignatius Wilczek.
On Wednesday, November 23rd 2016, Dr. Nicolas Detering gave the talk:
Kommunikationsrevolution und Kontinentalisierung: Mediengeschichtliche Überlegungen zum Europabewusstsein in der Frühen Neuzeit
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Monday, November 14th 2016, Prof. Ivano Dionigi gave the talk:
Lucrezio: verba et res – la grammatica del cosmo
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Thursday, November 10th 2016, Marco Bellabarba gave the talk:
Lingue di comunicazione, lingue burocratiche, lingue nazionali: la Sprachenfrage nelle terre asburgiche tra Sette e Novecento
The talk was followed by a discussion.
The team of the LBI’s project line „Neo-Latin and Mentalities“ was invited to lead an event for PhD-students on landscape narratives in ancient and early modern times on October 21–22 in Basel. The workshop was co-organized by the Classics institutes of Basel University and Zurich University under the supervision of Prof. Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer and Anne-Sophie Meyer, MA.
In 1687, the jurist Anton Wilhelm Ertl published the Neo-Latin romance Austriana regina Arabiae. The novel constitutes an allegorical treatment of the events surrounding the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, propagating the supranational unity of the the Habsburg Empire. The work marked the birth of the Neo-Latin Habsburg novel. This edition presents the text with a German translation and a substantial introduction into the Neo-Latin (Habsburg) novel in general and Ertl's Austriana in particular.
On Tuesday, October 25th 2016, James Hirstein gave the talk:
The Creation of the Bilingual Edition of Musaeus’ Hero and Leander at Basel in 1518: Chance and Science
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On September 1st, LBI member Johanna Luggin published her revised PhD thesis in the series Noctes Neolatinae (Georg Olms). The first modern edition of the hexameter poem De mirabilibus Pecci about the Seven Wonders of the English Peak District, written by the famous philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1627, presents the poem with an introduction, the Latin text, a German translation and a commentary.
On Wednesday, September 28th 2016, Paul Shore gave the talk:
Reading Between the Lines: A Forgotten 1622 Latin Translation of the Qur’an by Ignazio Lomellini, SJ
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Wednesday, September 21st 2016, Anna Gabriella Chisena gave the talk:
Tra sydera e arma. Introduzione alla Figura e alla Poesia di Basinio da Parma
The talk was followed by a discussion.