LATINITAS ET DOCTRINARUM ORBIS
Magnum ergo latini sermonis sacramentum est, magnum profecto numen
quod apud peregrinos, apud barbaros, apud hostes,
sancte ac religiose per tot saecula custoditur.
L. Valla, Elegantiae, preface.
Too often we have a tendency to relegate Latin to antiquity, forgetting that after the fall of the Roman empire, for 1500 years, the language of Rome was the language of culture and encounters between diverse people and fields.
After the 2021 series of lectures, and under the same significant title of Latinitas et doctrinarum orbis, we’re now pleased to present you with an afternoon of conversations about the multiple relationships between Latin and the ancient and modern world.
The lectures will be held in Latin according to the schedule provided below, and will last 45 minutes. At the end of the session, participants will have fifteen minutes to ask questions.
23 March 2024
at 3 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 1): Luciano Romano (Schola Latina): Quid de libero hominum arbitrio senserint quidam ex antiquis recentioribusque scriptoribus;
at 4 p. m.: Ignacio Escobar (painter): Quid inter renatarum artium et barocam picturam intersit;
at 5 p. m.: Iván Parga Ornelas (Oxford Latinitas – Jesus College, Oxford) ‘Pro Vergilio nunc David fideliorem vatem colam’: de Maphaei Vegii carminibus tum profanis tum religiosis.
The sessions are completely free and will be held on Zoom. To sign up, all you need to do is fill out the form below.
LATINITAS ET DOCTRINARUM ORBIS
December 2023
at 3 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 1): Natalija Čepeláková (Schola Latina): Quid auctores antiqui, mediaevales et recentiores de Indiae mirabilibus senserint;
at 4 p. m.: Roberto Carfagni (Schola Latina): Quid humanistae, qui dicuntur, de humanitate senserint;
at 5 p. m.: Jiří A. Čepelák (Charles University in Prague – Schola Latina): De Ioanne Amos Comenio eiusque docendi methodo.
April 2021
10 April, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Irene Regini (Satura Lanx): Iter ad utopiam duce Ludovico Holberg: de terra Potuana
17 April, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Eduardo Arturo Flores Miranda (Schola Latina): “Is omnium animos pinxit”: quid de animi sensuum imitatione apud artifices antiquos humanistae senserint
24 April, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Jiří A. Čepelák (Charles University in Prague): “Varietas delectat”, sive de Bohuslai Balbini, Bohemorum Livii, animo operibusque
30 April, at 6 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Giancarlo Rossi (Academia latinitati fovendae) and Claudio Piga (Europa Latina): De Friderici Borromaei Museo
May 2021
1 May, at 2 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma University): De Iaponibus qui inde a saeculo XVI usque ad XXI textus Latinos composuerint
8 May, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Giuseppe Marcellino (Schola humanistica): De recentioribus montis Aetnae conflagrationibus Latine illustratis
15 May, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Beat Jung (Collegium Latinitatis, Kantonsschule Solothurn): «Narrabo, quid αὐτοψία nos docuerit»: de itineribus per Helvetiae Alpinas regiones factis a J. J. Scheuchzero (1672-1733)
22 May, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Patrick M. Owens (Hillsdale College): “Farnesius Heros”, de Laurentii Gambarae carmine epico
28 May, at 6 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Omar López Pacheco (Schola Latina): Novus orbis, nova lingua, sive de latinitate in novum orbem inducta
29 May, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Ambra Marzocchi (Johns Hopkins University): Somnium, sive narratio de itinere quo Ioannes Keplerus iam anno 1609° in Lunam arcane pervenerit
June 2021
5 June, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Ramón Vieyra Ayala (Academia Renascens): De sermone Latino in ecclesia catholica
11 June, at 6 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Terence Tunberg (University of Kentucky): De linguae Latinae usu perenni quid dixerit Marcus Antonius Muretus orator praeclarus perpendamus
12 June, at 4 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Antoine Haaker (Wrocław University Library): De figuris a Ioanne Holbenio adulescente in Desiderii Erasmi Μωρίας ἐγκωμίου exemplo delineatis
25 June, at 6 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Antonio Antonioni (Europa Latina): De singularibus certaminibus quae duella vocant
26 June, at 2 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Li Hui (Beijing foreign studies University) and Luciano Romano (Beijing foreign studies University): Quomodo sermonis Latini notitia in Sinas recepta ac provecta sit saeculorum decursu, et quid inceptorum sibi proponat litterarum facultas nuper condita in universitate Pekinensi
July 2021
2 July, at 7 p. m. in Italy (UTC + 2): Milena Minkova (University of Kentucky): De sermone quo Ioannes Petrus Maffeius in Historiis Indicis est usus