Templa serena

Mariantonietta Paladini

Templa serena: studies in honor of Enrico Flores

Authors

Mariantonietta Paladini

University of Naples Federico II

Keywords:

Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Italian Literature

Synopsis

Publishers: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 432

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27540

Abstract: This volume Templa serena. Studi in onore di Enrico Flores is a collection of 37 articles, written by a group of scholars, who have been Flores’ collegues, friends or pupils. It deals with different subjects coming from greek literature (Aeschylus, Eupolis, Euripides, Epicurus), latin prose (Cicero, Florus, Seneca, Tacitus, Apuleius, Gellius) and poetry (Vergilius, Horatius, Ovidius, Juvenal) and from modern and contemporary italian literature (Dante, Giovanni Pontano, Giordano Bruno, Italo Svevo, Enea Silvio Piccolomini), through linguistic, exegetical, philosophical and historical inquiries. For the main part the volume implies some of the stronger interests belonged to Enrico Flores: Epicureanism, Ennius, Lucretius, De Saussure, Africa, the war. Ten years after his retirement, the miscellaneous volume comes to the light in order to be one more symbol of friendship and truthful respect.

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Author Biography

Mariantonietta Paladini, University of Naples Federico II

Mariantonietta Paladini is associate professor of Latin literature in the University of Naples Federico II. Her studies concern different authors of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, Ennius, Plautus, Cato, Lucretius, Catullus, Vergilius, Ovidius, Carisius) and some aspects of their Fortleben in Humanistic and Renaissance times (and among important personalities like Pomponius Laetus, Aulus Ianus Parrhasius, Kaspar Schoppius, Hieronymus Seripandus). She has also worked upon the commentary of Ennius’ Annales (2006) and of Livius Andronicus’ Odusia (2014), upon Lucretius’ Fortleben (Lucrezio e l’epicureismo tra Riforma e Controriforma, Napoli 2011) and upon Latin language as a language of science and culture (the translation of Francesco Imperato’s De fossilibus, 1630, has been published in 2015).