AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5, 2025
The speakers on this panel offered fresh perspectives on a wide range of significant Neo-Latin texts from the fifteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research
Organized by Patrick M. Owens
Colgate University
Patrick M. Owens
Colgate University
“Introduction”
Marquis Berrey
University of Maryland
“Literary Intention and Medical Realism in Antonio Benivieni’s De Abditis”
William Michael Barton
University of Innsbruck
“Improving Alexander von Humboldt’s Latin: Karl Benedikt Hase and the De distributione geographica plantarum secundum (1817)”
Paola Rosa Filisetti
Università di Trento
“Moralem Sensum Nostro Si Carmine Sumes: The Reception of Satire in the Stultifera Navis by Jakob Locher”
Christopher Mackay
University of Alberta
“Plus ça change: the relevance of the early-modern ‘Grammarians’ War’ to contemporary pedagogy”
David White
Baylor University
“The Latin Poetry of Richard Crashaw”
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AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), Chicago, Illinois, January 6, 2024
Neo-Latin and the State
Organized by Patrick M. Owens,
Colgate University
This panel illustrated the diversity, richness, and historical significance of Neo-Latin literature as it pertains to statecraft, diplomacy, political satire, and political science in general.
Michele Valerie Ronnick
Wayne State University
“Why is Milton ‘Milto’? Giovanni Salzilli, John Milton and Aelian”
Mirella Saulini
Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University
“In the Mirror and on the Stage: The Perfect Prince According to Jesuits”
Dániel Kiss
Universitat de Barcelona
“Human and divine statecraft in the manifesto Universis orbis Christiani principibus and in the Confessio peccatoris of Francis II Rákóczi”
Bradley Ritter
Ave Maria University
“‘What (is) the best condition of a state?’ Thomas More’s Epigrammata as Political Discourse”
David White
Baylor University
“Plenam potestatem et auctoritatem: The Commissions of Henry VIII in the Correspondence of Sir Thomas More”
Simone Carboni
Independent Scholar
“Radivilias, The Epic of the Lithuanian People”
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AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), New Orleans, Louisiana, Virtual Meeting, January 7, 2023
Neo-Latin at High Table: Current Research
Organized by Rodney Lokaj
Università Kore di Enna
Renato Ricco
Università di Salerno
“Writing for marriage and the pope during the pontificate of Julius II: the case of ‘Fausto’ Maddaleni Capodiferro”
Nancy Impellizzeri
Università Kore di Enna
“Fabio Vigili vs Blosio Palladio in an unusual satirical carmen”
Carmela Panarello
Independent Researcher
“How salt gets to the table promoting European culture”
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AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), San Francisco, California, Virtual Meeting, January 8, 2022
The World of Neo-Latin Epic, Organized by Annette Baertschi, Bryn Mawr College
Massimo Cè
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
“An Untimely Iliad: Eoban, Virgil, and a Belated First in the History of Homeric Translation”
Louis Verreth
Leiden University
“Rivers as Symbols of Power in Neo-Latin Epic: The Case of Medici Panegyrics”
Jonathan Correa-Reyes
The Pennsylvania State University
“Alternative History and Future Fantasy in Juan Latino’s Austriad”
Stephen Harrison
University of Oxford
“Vergilian Divine Machinery in Thomas Campion’s De Pulverea Coniuratione”
Bernardo Berruecos Frank
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
“O stolidas hominum mentes, o pectora caeca! Classical Traditions, Indigenous Imagery and Judeo-Christian Ideology in José de Villerías’ Guadalupe”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), All-Virtual Meeting, January 9, 2021
The World of Neo-Latin Epistolography, Organized by Patrick M. Owens, Hillsdale College
Patrick M. Owens
Hillsdale College
“Introduction”
Quinn Griffin
Grand Valley State University
“Epistolary Exemplarity: Cassandra Fedele to Beatrice of Aragon”
Justin Mansfield
Independent Scholar
“The Letters of Jacobus Trigland the Younger”
Olivia Montepaone
Università degli Studi di Milano
“Classics and Heterodox Ideas in Celio Secondo Curione’s Prefatory Letters”
Aron Ouwerkerk
University of Amsterdam
“Using the bookshelves at home: the formation of the letter-writing of Margaretha van Godewijck in the Dutch Republic”
Emőke Rita Szilágyi
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
“Epistolae familiares as Opportunity for Self-Fashioning: Humanist Letter-Writing Habits in Nicolaus Olahus’ Correspondence”
Simon Smets
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies
“Narrative Design in Marsilio Ficino’s Letter Collection Book I”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), Washington, D.C., January 4, 2020
Neo-Latin in the Old and New Worlds: Current Scholarship, Organized by American Association for Neo-Latin Studies and Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University
Bryan Whitchurch
Fordham University
“Turks as Trojans: Intertext and Allusion in Ubertino Posculo’s Constantinopolis”
Annette Baertschi
Bryn Mawr College
“Exemplarity in Petrarch’s Africa”
Carl P. E. Springer
University of Tennessee
“Rhyming Rome: Luther’s In Clementem Papam VII”
John Izzo
Columbia University
“Aztec Physicians in Greco-Roman Garb”
Benjamin C. Driver
Brown University
“Galileo the Immortalizer: Classical Allusions in the Dedication of Sidereus Nuncius”
Nicolò Bettegazzi
University of Groningen
“The Pax Augustea in Fascist Italy: A Catholic Response to the Augustan Bimillenary”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), San Diego, California, January 6, 2019
Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches, Organized by Quinn E. Griffin, Grand Valley State University
Quinn E. Griffin
Grand Valley State University
“Introduction”
Stephen Maiullo
Hope College
“The Classical Tradition in the Personal Correspondence of Anna Maria van Schurman”
Anne Mahoney
Tufts University
“Cristoforo Landino’s Metrical Practice in Aeolics”
Kat Vaananen
The Ohio State University
“Syphilitic Trees: Immobility and Voicelessness in Ovid and Fracastoro”
Joshua Patch
University of Dallas
“Sannazaro’s Pastoral”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), Boston, Massachusetts, January 6, 2018
The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research, organized by Patrick M. Owens, Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
Michael Spangler
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Greenville, South Carolina
“Catullus Transformed: Antiquity Resurrected for Reformation in Theodore Beza’s 1579 Psalmorum Davidis et Aliorum Prophetarum Libri Quinque”
Rodney Lokaj and Alessandro Tosco
Università degli Studi di Enna, Kore, Sicily
“Translating Confucius: Intorcetta’s First Attempts”
Carl P.E. Springer and Alexander R. Spanjer
University of Tennessee Chattanooga
“A Neo-Latin Theological Bestiary of the Seventeenth Century”
Albert R. Baca
Professor Emeritus, California State University
“Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict”
Anne Mahoney
Tufts University
“Viribius in Pascoli’s Laureolus”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, January 6, 2017
Neo-Latin Around the World: Current Issues, organized by Roger S. Fisher, York University
Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
“Out of Greeke into Latin Verse”: Nicholas Allen’s Latin Translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus (1561) and Its Predecessors (25 min.)
Joseph A. Tipton, Winthrop University
“The Poetry of Paradox: Book I of Petrus Lotichius’ Elegies” (25 min.)
Tom Keeline, Washington University in St. Louis
“Count Zinzendorf’s Philadelphia Oratio” (25 min.)
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly, APA), San Francisco, California, January 8, 2016
Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research, organized by Anne-Marie Lewis,York University
Quinn Griffin
The Ohio State University
“Laura Cereta’s In asinarium funus oratio” (20 min.)
Wieneke Jansen
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
“The Praise of a Pagan: Pseudo -Longinus in 17th century Dutch Scholarship” (20 min.)
Roger S. Fisher
York University
“Summum ius, summa injuria: The function of aequitas in Thomas More’s Utopia and Christopher St. Germain’s Dialogus de fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia” (20 min.)
Patrick Owens
Wyoming Catholic College
“Aeneid 13: Four Vergilian Imitators” (20 min.)
Carl P. E. Springer
University of Tennessee Chattanooga
“Calvin’s Latin” (20 min.)
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly, APA), New Orleans, Louisiana, January 10, 2015
Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe, organized by Roger Stephen Fisher, York University.
Owen Ewald, Seattle Pacific University
“Out of the Pietist Labyrinth: Susanna Sprögel’s Latin Verses” (20 mins.)
Eric Hutchinson, Hillsdale College
“Greek and Roman Sources in Niels Hemmingsen’s De lege naturae apodictica methodus”
(20 mins.)
K. T. S. Klos, University of Florida
“… quae mihi satis liberalis et humana visa” (20 mins.)
Jay Reed, Brown University
“Love’s Imperium in Garcilaso’s Third Latin Ode” (20 mins.)
Marco Romani Mistretta, Harvard University
“Myths of Poetry and Praise: Orpheus in Poliziano’s and Statius’ Silvae” (20 mins.)
Maya Feile Tomes, University of Cambridge
“José Manuel Peramás’ De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio (1777): [World]views of America in a Little-Known Neo-Latin Epic on Columbus’ Voyages to the “New World” (20 mins.)
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 2014
The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research, organized by Anne-Marie Lewis, York University.
Annet den Haan, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
“Humanism at the Papal court: the Biblical scholarship of Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459)”
Eric Hutchinson, Hillsdale College
“Tradition and Innovation in Some Paraphrases of Psalm 1: Hessus, Buchanan, Beza”
Robert Clinton Simms, Chuo University, Tokyo
“Redressing Caesar as Dido in Thomas May’s Supplementum Lucani”
Albert R. Baca, California State University, Northridge
“The De Arte Poetica (1705) of Theophanes Prokopovich (1681-1736)”
Patrick Owens, Wyoming Catholic College
“Arcadius Avellanus: Neo-Latin works of the early 20th century
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Seattle, Washington, January 4, 2013
Current Research in Neo-Latin Studies, organized by Frank Coulson, The Ohio State University.
Johanna Luggin, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies
“Discovering the Peak: A Philological Approach to Thomas Hobbes’s De mirabilibus pecci”
Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University
“The Pope, the Pole, and the Bison: Nicolaus Hussovianus’ De statura, feritate ac venatione bisontis Carmen”
Gabriel L. Fuchs, The Ohio State University
“A Polish poet in Ovidian exile: Janicki’s Tristium Liber 1 and Ovid’s Tristia 1.1”
Akahiko Watanabe, Otsuma’s Women’s University
“The Jesuit Seminary and Japanese Latinists in the 16th to 17th Century”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 2012
Current Research in Neo-Latin Studies, organized by Diane Johnson, Western Washington University.
Peter O’Brien, Dalhousie University
“My ink is made of white snow’: Le Brun’s Letter from Canadian Barbery”
Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
“‘Libros non Liberos Pariens:’ A 17th Century Latin Pun and Feminist Symbol”
Michael Jean, The Ohio State University
“Auctor and Commentator: Tommaso Schifaldo’s Commentary on the Epistula Sapphus”
Edward V. George, Texas Tech University
“Early Modern Historical Fiction on the Roman Republic: Juan Luis Vives and the Sullan Era”
Albert Baca California State University at Northridge
“The Joannae Virginis Laudes of Francisco Cabrera”
Also presented, January 7, 2012: The AANLS Roundtable: Getting Started in Neo-Latin Scholarship, Organized by Fred Booth, Seton Hall University and Diane Johnson, Western Washington University
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), San Antonio, Texas, January 9, 2011
Neo-Latin Studies: Current Research, organized by Fred Booth, Seton Hall University.
Matthew McGowan, Fordham University
“From Cornu Copiae to Thesaurus:Latin Lexicography in The Renaissance”
Diane Johnson, Western Washington University,
“The Epitaphia of Johannes Posselius and the Lutheran Funeral Elegy”
John Richards, The Ohio State University
“A Newly Discovered Collection of Poems by Ippolito Grassetti, S. J., (1619-1663), at the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, The Ohio State University”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Anaheim, California, January 7, 2010
Neo-Latin in Europe and the Americas: Current Research, organized by Edward George, Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University.
Jane Chance, Rice University
“Coluccio Salutati’s De laboribus Herculis”
W. J. C. M. Gelderblom, Radboud University Nijmegen
“One Kiss Can Make a Difference: The Genesis of Johannes Secundus’ Basia
Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
“The Personification of America in Stephen Parmenius’ De Navigatione”
Mark Riley, California State University, Sacramento
“John Barclay as a Writer of Characters”
Also presented, January 10, 2010: The AANLS Roundtable: The World of Neo-Latin, Organized by Anne-Marie Lewis, York University and Diane Johnson, Western Washington University
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Philadelphia, January 10, 2009
Neo-Latin Studies: Current Research, organized by Terence Tunberg of the University of Kentucky, featured five papers that dealt with recent scholarship in the diverse international field of Neo-Latin. Panelists were:
Frank Coulson, The Ohio State University
“Newly Discovered German Reformation Commentaries on Ovid”
Diane Johnson, Western Washington University
“Johannes Posselius the Elder and the Study of Sophocles at Rostock”
Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
“The quinquennium mirabile of Cicero’s Paradoxa Stoicorum, 1541-1546”
Benjamin Victor, Université de Montréal
“The Scholar and the Book-Collector: Pietro Bembo’s Dialogue De Virgilii Culice et Terentii Fabulis”
Leah Whittington, Princeton University
“Petrarch’s Africa and the Truth Claims of Poetry”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Chicago, January 6, 2008
Neo-Latin Studies: Current Research, organized by Fred Booth of Seton Hall University, featured five papers that dealt with recent scholarship in the diverse international field of Neo-Latin. Panelists were:
Julia Gaisser, Bryn Mawr College
“Lucius the Priest in Filippo Beroaldo’s Commentary on the Golden Ass”
Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
“The Latin Themes of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots”
Diane Johnson, Western Washington University
“Aphthonius’ Chreia: Reinhard Lorich and the Death of Eobanus”
Albert R. Baca, California State University, Northridge
“Francisco Cabrera’s Benito Juárez: A 21st Century Latin Epyllion”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), San Diego, January 5, 2007
Insignes Feminae: Post-classical Women as Latin Writers, organized by Anne-Marie Lewis of York University, featured three papers that offered perspectives on learned women in Italy and England who wrote in Latin from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries and the attitudes men had toward these women and their works.
Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
Introduction
Robert G. Babcock, Yale University
“The Nogarola Sisters and Their Study of Justinus”
Umit S. Dhuga, Columbia University
“The Poetics of Plagiarism in Early Modern Women’s Writing”
Roger S. Fisher, York University
“The Widow and the Rogue – The Depiction of a Woman Writing Latin Poetry in the Seventeenth Century”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Montreal, January 7, 2006
Neo-Latin and the Vernacular: The Art of Translation from the Renaissance to the Present, organized by Frank T. Coulson of The Ohio State University, focused on the translation of Latin texts into the vernacular or with more theoretical treatises that expound the art of translation.
Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
“Nicholas Allen’s Translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus”
Grainne McLaughlin, University College, Dublin
“Classical Latin Epic and Didactic as Invective in the Counter Reformation”
Christopher Brown, The Ohio State University
“Lancelot’s Nouvelle méthode: Translation as ratio docendi”
Robert Ulery, Wake Forest University
“Pietro Bembo’s Italian Translation of his Latin Historia Veneta (1551)”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Boston, January 9, 2005
Epicureanism in the Renaissance, organized by Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers of the University of Alabama, featured four papers that discussed the paradox of Epicureanism in the Renaissance.
Ada Palmer, Harvard University
“Lucretius, Epicureanism and Atomism in the Renaissance”
Barry Brundell, University of New South Wales
“An Explanation for the Popularity of Pierre Gassendi”
Kirk Summers, University of Alabama
The Calvinists Against the Epicureans: Whom Are They Attacking?”
Michael Miller, New York University
“Lucretius, Vitruvius, Boccaccio and Piero di Cosimo’s Paintings on Early Man”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), San Francisco, January 3, 2004
Neo-Latin Literature: Current Research, organized by Michele Valerie Ronnick of Wayne State University, featured four papers on a wide variety of the latest developments in Neo-Latin research.
Grainne McLaughlin, University College, Dublin
“Prayer, Poetry, Power, Politics: Humanist Latinitas as a Visual Aid in Raphael’s Stanza”
Albert R. Baca, California State University
“A Letter Written But Best Not Delivered: Pius II’s Epistle to Mohammed II”
Mario A. DiCesare, State University of New York
“The Angelopolis of Francisco Cabrera”
Martha Patricia Irigoyen Troconis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
“Can Non-Italians Write Latin? Diego José Abad’s Dissertatio ludico-seria (1778)”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), New Orleans, January 4, 2003
New Directions in Neo-Latin Studies, organized by Kirk Summers of the University of Alabama, featured four papers on topics in European Neo-Latin studies.
Angela Fritsen, Episcopal School of Dallas
“Sex totidemque… The Renaissance Fortune of Ovid’s Severed Book”
Kirk Summers, University of Alabama
“Elegiac Themes in the French Neo-Latinists”
Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers, University of Alabama
“Religion as the Conqueror of Pleasure in Cardinal de Polignac’s Anti-Lucretius”
Constance Iacona, Independent Scholar
“Lithuania, the Bison, and a Neo-Latin Elegy”
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), Philadelphia, January 6, 2002
Neo-Latin Texts and the Hispanic New World: Diffusion and Alteration of European Attitudes, organized by Michele Valerie Ronnick of Wayne State University, featured four papers highlighting recent research on Neo-Latin texts in the Americas.
Craig W. Kallendorf, Texas A & M University
“Aeneas in the ‘New World’: Stella’s Columbeis and Vergilian Pessimism”
Geoffrey Eatough, University of Wales, Lampeter
“The Mexican Challenge”
Albert R. Baca, California State University, Northridge
“The Angelopolis of Francisco Cabrera”
Nancy E. Llewellyn, University of California, Los Angeles
“Cabrera’s Tenochtitlan”
Respondent: Edward V. George, Texas Tech University
AANLS Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), San Diego, January 5, 2001
Neo-Latin Studies: Current Research, organized by Jane Crawford of Loyola Marymount University, featured four papers on a variety of Neo-Latin topics.
John B. Dillon, University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Janus/Januarius//Genius/Gennaro: Transformation of Tibullus in Sannazaro El. 2.3”
Jennifer Tunberg, University of Kentucky
“The Origin of Thomas More’s Coinage Utopia”
Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
“Elizabethan Politics and Poetry: The Patron-Client Relationship of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, to Latin Poet and Translator Nicholas Allen”
Jeanine De Landtsheer, University of Leuven (Belgium)
“Between Antiquity and Modern Times: Justus Lipsius and his Correspondence”
Respondent: Jane Crawford, Loyola Marymount University