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.
On Monday, August 29th 2016, Oren Margolis gave the talk:
Towards an Ideology of Print
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Thursday, August 25th 2016, Áron Orbán gave the talk:
Phoebean symbolism and poetical self-representation in the work of Conrad Celtis
The talk was followed by a discussion.
All the members of the Faculty of Humanities (cf. https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/philologisch_kulturwissenschaftliche/...) of Innsbruck university were invited to a meeting with the members of the LBI for Neo-Latin Studies on 22 June 2016.
Dean Sebastian Donat was impressed by the current research projects and encourages further collaboration between the LBI and the different researchers from the faculty.
On Thursday, July 28th 2016, Dr. David McOmish gave the talk:
A Literary Revolution: Didactic Poetry and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Scotland
The talk was followed by a discussion.
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising a FREE EVENT aimed at researchers with interests in Neo-Latin at the postdoctoral and early-career level, to be held on the 9th September 2016 at King’s College London (Strand Campus). A full schedule for the event is given below, and will include a lunch sponsored by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Matin Studies and coffee breaks. Each session will include brief presentations on the schemes and opportunities under discussion, with particular consideration of the perspective of neo-Latin researchers.
On Wednesday, June 22th 2016, Dr. Francesco Lucioli gave the talk:
From Practice to Theory: Bernardino Stefonio’s De tragoedia
The talk was followed by a discussion.