Centre for Mediaeval Studies L. Boyle - Vicenza
Contrà Cornoleo 24  -   36100 Vicenza (Italy)
tel. (39) 0444/54 46 32     email: dcsaki@yahoo.com

Individualized courses in the historical centre of Vicenza, a few steps from the Biblioteca Bertoliana, the romano-gothic temple of San Lorenzo, the palaeo-Christian Cathedral. Tantalizingly close to manuscripts in Verona (Biblioteca Capitolare), Venice (Biblioteca Marciana), Padoa (Biblioteca Antoniana), to the castles of Romeo and Juliet.

Courses

READINGS IN MEDIEVAL LATIN

Choose one or more sessions.
Participate in person, by email or regular mail (attn: Luciana Cuppo)
Register by email, regular mail, or by telephone (attn: Luciana Cuppo)

Language of instruction: English, German, or Italian. Texts will be read in Latin, but individual assistance with translation is available.

SYLLABUS (still a skeleton; fleshing out in progress)

We will meet in the Centro storico of Vicenza on the dates indicated below, 3 to 5 p.m. Meetings of the minds know no limits of time and space: write whenever you want.

Thursday, 17 February 2005

Jerome, Damasus and the Vulgate: A linguist's dilemmas.

Preliminary readings: The Gospels in the Vulgata translation and Jerome, Preface to the Gospels and Epistolae 15, 16, 53.

Thursday, 24 February 2005

Augustine and the Trinity

Preliminary readings: Augustine, Confessions and De Trinitate, Book One.

Thursday, 3 March 2005

Manuscript Studies: Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Msc. Patr. 87 and Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare XXII

Preliminary readings: Jerome/Gennadius, De viris illustribus Thursday, 10 March 2005

Manuscript Studies: Codex Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare XXII

Scholars and their reviewers (Nicholas Everett, Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568-774, Cambridge 2003, reviewed by Michael Richter, The Medieval Review, April 2004) lay stress on the need for serious study of the written records from Lombard Italy. The MS Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare XXII, copied shortly after A.D. 555 and annotated in the intervening years, is one such record. Palaeographical evidence suggests that it was written for, rather than at, Verona, where it came from southern Italy. If this is true, the codex provides evidence of intellectual exchange between Verona in the Lombard kingdom and the Byzantine South of Italy. Go to Manuscript studies for some comments.

Preliminary readings: Liber Pontificalis Romanae Ecclesiae, particularly the 'Laurentian Fragment'.

Thursday, 17 March 2005

A View from Lombard Italy: Paulus Diaconus

Preliminary readings: Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum

Thursday, 31 March 2005

Selected Latin poems from the Middle Ages.

Thursday, 7 April 2005

Selected Latin poems from the Middle Ages

Thursday, 14 April 2005

Dares Phrygius


Tutorials

Purpose-made tutorials available throughout the year: one or more sessions, meeting times to be arranged individually. Basic disciplines: Latin from classical to humanistic, basic palaeography, textual criticism, medieval Italian.


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