43 research outputs found
Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici
No full textThis volume offers the first modern edition and study of the liturgical writings of Bern, abbot of Reichenau (d. 1048). Dealing with some of the more ordinary questions facing medieval worshipping communities – such as how to find the correct date for Advent Sunday, or how to be sure that a text is liturgically or doctrinally appropriate – Bern’s four tractates provide rare first-hand insights into the practices, problems and perceptions of Christian liturgy in the early years of the second millennium. Formerly attributed to Bern, a fifth work (Ratio generalis de initio Aduentus) is shown to be one of his sources and is edited in an appendix.Unlike formal liturgical expositions, Bern’s writings were devoted to alleviating specific concerns, often at the request of specific people. However, the author also believed strongly in the potential of his reasoning to draw together the Christian community at large. As such, these writings are assiduously argued and researched, reaching their conclusions with the author’s characteristically broad weave of citation, interpretation and anecdote. With implications liturgical, intellectual and political, the tractates are fertile sources not only for scholars of religion, but also for musicologists and medieval historians.In an extensive introduction the editor addresses longstanding questions about the shape, extent and internal coherence of Bern's liturgical oeuvre, aided by two recently rediscovered manuscripts. The apparatus and indices also provide the first detailed survey of the author’s extensive liturgical, patristic and canonical citations, in addition to accessible explications of more complicated areas of argument
recensione a Carey Seal, Philosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose Works, Oxford 2021
No full textIl volume offre un'analisi di passi senecani su temi come la schiavitù, l'amicizia, lo stato, valorizzando testi poco sfruttati.The author presents an analysis of some passages from Seneca's prose works on themes such as friendship, slavery, state
rec. a T. Gazzarri, The Stylus and the Scalpel. Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Prose Works, Berlin-Boston 2020
No full textL'articolo valorizza la prospettiva originale dell'autore, che applica la teoria delle metafore di Lakoff e Johnson al materialismo stoico di Seneca con grande rispetto per il testo e risultati originali.The article shows how the author applies Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphors to Senecan Stoic materialism.
His perspective is original and the results very interesting
Allegoria templare e topologizzazione del corpo di Cristo nel Vangelo di Filippo (NHC ii, 3)
No full textL’articolo analizza la pericope 69, 14 - 70, 4 del Vangelo copto di Filippo , ove l’Autore gnostico narra della presenza, a Gerusalemme, di tre case del sacrificio, connettendole (almeno apparentemente) ad altrettante pratiche rituali valentiniana. La tesi che qui si vuole sostenere è che a governare tale complessa articolazione teologica sia una sistematica e pienamente dispiegata allegorizzazione dei luoghi neotestamentari indicanti la pretesa messianica di distruzione e ricostruzione del Tempio, gnosticamente interpretata come assunzione da parte di Cristo delle diversificate nature antropologiche che differentemente specificano l’attitudine della creazione verso i misteri del Pleroma. Il Tempio/Corpo di Cristo/comunità degli eletti realizza, quindi, una topografia della salvezza.The main aim of this article is the analysis of the Coptic Gospel of Philip’s pericope 69, 14 - 70, 4. There, the Gnostic Author introduces the three houses of sacrifice in Jerusalem, linking them with three valentinian ritual practices. My argument is that such connection is due to a complex process of allegorical reading of the NT’s passages related to messianic claim to destroy and rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem. This pretense is gnostically understood as the assumption from Christ of the different anthropological natures. Therefore, the Temple/Christ’s Body/Chosen People’s Community fulfills a topography of Salvation
Un nuovo saggio su Seneca
No full textrecensione all'ultima traduzione di un'antologia senecana dell'esistenzialista spagnola Maria Zambrano. L'antologia è preceduta da un saggio in cui l'autrice valorizza l'indipendenza del saggio senecano dagli eventi esterni, e la sua lotta inesausta per la libertà di pensiero.Review the latest translation of an anthology Seneca dell'esistenzialista Spanish Maria Zambrano. The anthology is prefaced by an essay in which the author emphasizes the independence of the wise Seneca by external events, and his tireless fight for freedom of thought
Appunti sul latino di Galileo Galilei
No full textIl latino di Galileo, generalmente ritenuto sciatto e povero rispetto a quello dei contemporanei, è in realtà (come dimostrano le correzioni sui manoscritti) frutto di una precisa scelta dell'autore, intesa a creare una lingua asciutta, chiara e diretta per esprimere i concetti scientifici. Non a caso, le opere scritte in italiano sono quelle più divulgative (e letterarie), quelle in latino sono dirette alla comunità scientifica internazionale.Galilei's latin, generally considered sloppy and poor compared to that of his contemporaries, it is in reality (as evidenced by the corrections on manuscripts) result of a deliberate choice of the author, which aims to create a tongue dry, clear and direct to express concepts scientific. Not surprisingly, works written in Italian are the most popular science (and literary), those in Latin are directed to the international scientific community
Roman luxuria. A literary and cultural history
No full textIl volume traccia una storia del lessema e del concetto di luxuria - il vizio dell'eccesso e del desiderio di esibizione - dalle origini della letteratura latina ai primi secoli dell'era cristiana, individuandone la progressiva specializzazione in senso erotico, che porta all'inclusione tra i peccati capitali della religione cristiana. Particolare attenzione è data a Seneca, in quanto autore che ha dedicato particolare attenzione alla definizione e alla fenomenologia di questo vizio.The volume offers a history of the word and concept of luxuria - the passion of excess and desire for ostentation - in Latin literature, from the origin to the first centuries CE, focusing on the development of its secondary meaning 'lust' as the first one. This leads to its inclusion within the list of the Seven Capital Sins of Christian thought. Special attention is given to Seneca as pagan author who mostly deals with this vice, providing a detailed description and phenomenology
A note on Condorcet consistency and the median voter
No full textWe discuss to which extent the median voter theorem extends to the domain of single-peaked preferences on median spaces. After observing that on this domain a Condorcet winner need not exist, we show that if a Condorcet winner does exist, then it coincides with the median alternative ('the median voter'). Based on this result, we propose two non-cooperative games that implement the unique strategy-proof social choice rule on this domain. --
Claranus, Héraclès, Mucius Scaevola. Paradigmes de persuasion dans la littre 66 de Sénèque
No full textIl lavoro presenta un'analisi della lettera 66 di Seneca, una lunga disquisizione sulla tassonomia dei beni nello Stoicismo. L'argomentazione senecana riduce tutti i beni alla virtù, e finisce con il dimostrare che le condizioni apparentemente spiacevoli, come la sofferenza fisica, sono preferibili a quelle piacevoli, perché consentono la manifestazione compiuta della virtù stessa. Questa tesi paradossale viene dimostrata non grazie ad argomentazioni astratte, ma attraverso il ricorso a due esempi storici e romani, uno vicino all'autore (Clarano), che fornisce la cornice della lettera, e uno remoto e celeberrimo (Muzio Scevola), che occupa la conclusione. Nel mezzo dell'argomentazione, invece, è il paradigma mitologico e greco di Eracle al bivio a supportare lo snodo cruciale del discorso.In this paper I present an analysis of Seneca's Epistle 66, a long disquisition on Stoic taxonomy of goods. Seneca reduces all good to Virtue, and demostrates that conditions which seems to be negative (such as illnesses or sufference) are in fact better than those generally considered as positive, because they let virtue express itself. This paradoxical issue is demostrated non via an abstract argumentation, but recurring to two Roman historical examples, the first a personal friend of the author, who is the protagonist of the literary frame of the letter, and the other a great archaic hero, Mucius Scaevola, whose story is narrated in the end of the text. In the middle, we find the mythological paradigm of Heracles at the crossroads, which constitutes the key of Senecan discourse
finanziamento PRIN
No full textThis project aims to build a map of primary emotions (according to the most widespread psychological classifications, anger, disgust, fear, happiness,
sadness, and surprise) from Roman times to modern ones, with attention to different fields. A first step will be the construction of a lexicon of passions,
in the form of a specialized handbook. This lexicon will be focused on Roman culture and its reception in Medieval and modern thought until the XVIIIth
century, and enriched by images of ancient art and archaeology from the Museo Nazionale Romano. The two outputs of the project will be a research
monograph (printed and published online in open access in PDF format) and a multimedia online resource integrating texts, images and other artworks
from the Museo Nazionale Romano, tagged semantically on the basis of the primary emotions listed above. This digital resource will be available both
on the web and as an app for mobile devices. Users – including both specialists and the general public – will be able to interactively navigate this web
of cultural products spanning through different arts, cultures and centuries tagged semantically on the basis of the primary emotions listed above.
Thanks to a net of hyperlinks generated dynamically from the semantic tagging of elements in the back-end database, each visitor will be able to build
his/her own path from a passion to another, choosing to deepen information about a single text/author/artwork, and so on, and to switch from, say,
surprise to happiness and love. It will be also possible to try the reverse path, from an artwork/text/word to the corresponding passion.
PATHOS (PATHs Of the Soul. An atlas of ancient emotions) will produce an open access publication and a digital resource, accessible as a website
and through a mobile app. In this way, the result of the project will be useful at different levels: to scholars, for specialized thematic researches; to
teachers, to find materials for didactic purposes, and to students and a wider audience to find the ancient keywords, texts, and artworks corresponding
to their daily mood.
A real-world spinoff of the project will be the arranging of informative panels in the sites of Museo Nazionale Romano, in which the emotion expressed
by the artwork is highlighted, with reference to the peculiar gesture/detail/facial expression related to it, and to selected passages about it. This may
offer the visitors new ways of enjoying ancient art, with the chance of creating one's own path between, say, 'happy' artworks.
The project is designed for a two year work, but it is easily expandable both on the synchronic and the diachronic axis, i.e. either to secondary
emotions, or to other cultures and ages
