Text & Literature

L’Adversus Colotem di Plutarco

Storia di una polemica filosofica

Aurora Corti

In-depth analysis of Plutarch’s anti-Epicurean treatise Adversus Colotem L’Adversus Colotem, composto intorno al 100 d.C., fa parte, insieme al non posse e al de latenter vivendo, della cosidetta ‘trilogia anti-epicurea’ di Plutarco. Questo volume analizza l’Adversus Colotem nel suo complesso, approfondendone, in particolar modo, le strategie polemiche, le alleanze filosofiche e le tecniche argomentative. Il libro si articola in quattro capitoli, rispettivamente dedicati: 1) all’analisi della struttura dell’opera; 2) alla ricostruzione, basata sullo studio critico delle fonti antiche (Plutarco, Proclo, Macrobio e i Papiri Ercolanesi), della figura, degli scritti e della filosofia dell’epicureo Colote; 3) all’approfondimento della tesi dell’unità dell’Accademia, così come difesa in quest’opera da Plutarco; 4) all’esame della sezione su Arcesilao (Adv. Col. 1121 E-1123 A) e, in special modo, della teoria dell’azione dell’accademico ivi esposta.

The Adversus Colotem, written around 100 A.D., is one of Plutarch’s three extant anti-Epicurean treatises. It is a reply to Colotes’ otherwise unknown book entitled ‘On the fact that according to the doctrines of the other philosophers it is impossible to live’. This volume analyses the Adversus Colotem as a whole and, in particular, explores its polemical target, its philosophical background and its argumentative strategies.

Previously published in the series Plutarchea Hypomnemata

n Virtues for the People. Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics Geert Roskam, Luc Van der Stockt € 64,95 / £ 58.00, isbn 978 90 5867 858 4, hardback – also available as eBook (eisbn 978 94 6166 118 0) n Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades. Story, Text and Moralism Simon Verdegem € 69,50 / £60.50, isbn 978 90 5867 760 0, hardback – also available as eBook (eisbn 978 94 6166 009 1) aurora corti obtained a Doctoral Degree in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome in 2012. Currently she is Research Fellow at the Institute for European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (iliesi) of the Italian National Research Council (cnr).

n € 79,00 / £71.00

n isbn 978 94 6270 009 3 n October 2014 n Hardback, 16 x 24 cm n 306 pp. n Italian, with an English summary n Plutarchea Hypomnemata

dirk sacré is Professor of Latin and NeoLatin at KU Leuven. gilbert tournoy is Emeritus Professor of Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at KU Leuven. monique mund-dopchie is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek literature and History of Humanism at the Université Catholique de Louvain (LouvainlaNeuve). jan papy is Research Professor of NeoLatin Literature and Renaissance Humanism at KU Leuven. lambert isebaert is Professor of Latin and Linguistics at the Université Catholique de Louvain (LouvainlaNeuve).

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n isbn 978 94 6270 016 1 n December 2014 n Paperback, 16 x 24 cm n ca. 550 p. n English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Latin n Humanistica Lovaniensia 63

Humanistica Lovaniensia

Journal of Neo-Latin Studies Volume lxiii – 2014

Editorial Board: Dirk Sacré (General Editor), Gilbert Tournoy, Monique MundDopchie, Jan Papy & Lambert Isebaert

Leading journal in the field of Renaissance and modern Latin As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Its systematic bibliography of Neo-Latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms).

With the following contributions

Paola Tomè, Metodo compilativo e stratificazione delle fonti nell’Orthographia di Giovanni Tortelli

Harry Vredeveld, The Propheticum Sibyllae Erythreae Ascribed to the Erfurt Humanist Johann Lang and its Alleged Role in Reformation History

Šime Demo, Towards a Unified Definition of Macaronics

Roger P.H. Green, The Extent of Senecan Influence in the Dramas of George Buchanan

Manuel Antonio Díaz Gito, Ad spectacvlvm trivmphi. La entrada de Vaca de Castro como Gobernador del Perú en El Cuzco (1542): adaptación de una relación castellana inédita en De rebvs Indicis de Calvete de Estrella

María Elisa Cuyás de Torres, Aftonio en el Renacimiento: el comentario al lugar común de Lorich

Gregorio Rodríguez Herrera, Tradición y originalidad en la In Aphthonii sophistae Progymnasmata commentatio de Burchhardus Harbart

Peter Osorio, Justus Lipsius and his Confusion of Chrysippus’s Distinction of Causes in Physiologia, 1, 14

Walther Ludwig, Josephus Justus Scaligers jambische Invektive [In tyrranidem Papatus sive] Superstitio im Album amicorum des Paulus a Gisbice aus Prag

Oleg Nikitinski, Petrus Cunaeus über astrologische Wahrsagerei und über die Würde der exakten Wissenschaften: Erstpublikation der Rede Cur olim Mathematici

Pablo Toribio Pérez, Un texto inédito de Isaac Newton sobre el culto a los santos (Jerusalén, Biblioteca Nacional de Israel, Yahuda Ms. Var. 1/ Newton 19, ff. 144-146)

Isabella Walser, Heroic Verse Goes Prose: Anton Wilhelm Ertl’s Novel Austriana regina Arabiae (1687)

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Neo-Latin Philology: Old Tradition, New Approaches

Marc van der Poel (ed.)

Andreae Alciati Contra Vitam Monasticam Epistula

Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary by Denis L. Drysdall (ed.)

Material Philology and the study of Renaissance Latin literature Neo-Latin Philology: Old Tradition, New Approaches explores the question whether the approaches developed in the so-called New or Material Philology can be applied to the study of Renaissance Latin literature. Two contributions in this volume focus on theoretical issues, the first presenting a critical assessment of the debate on New Philology in the 1990s, the second providing guidelines for researchers of the materiality of sources. The remaining seven contributions discuss various ways in which the material presentation in either manuscript or print played a part in the interpretation of a variety of texts.

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marc van der poel is Professor of Latin at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Criticism of monastic life by one of Europe’s major Renaissance figures In his letter Against Monastic Life (1514–17) Andrea Alciato, an Italian jurist and writer famous for his Emblemata, urges his friend Bernardus Mattius to reconsider his choice of monastic life. Alciato makes his argument by criticizing religious superstition, the Church’s hierarchy, and monastic practices, particularly the Franciscans’ hypocrisy, wealth, and divisiveness. Instead, he defends a stoic, civic humanism. Due to the troubled history of this unique manuscript and the inadequacies of the two subsequent editions, Alciato’s discourse has been obscured for centuries. This edition and translation seeks to make clear the biographical importance of the text for one of the major figures of the European Renaissance.

denis drysdall is a Research Associate and retired Associate Professor of Romance Languages of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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n isbn 978 90 5867 989 5 n July 2014 n Paperback, 16 x 24 cm n 208 pp. n 23 b&w illustrations and several tables n English n Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 35 n € 55,00 / £46.00

n isbn 978 94 6270 001 7 n July 2014 n Paperback, 16 x 24 cm n 144 pp. n Text edition: Latin + English translation n Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 36

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