Conference Programme
Provisional Programme (please visit back later for potential changes)
Friday, 25 April
10.45-11.30: Registration (Tea/Coffee)
The Graduate Space (in front of the Renaissance Centre, Humanities Building 4th Floor Extension)
11.30: Opening
11.45-12.45: Panel 1 - Dr. David A. Lines (Italian/Centre for the Study of the Renaissance)
Caroline Spearing (King’s College, London) Latin in Books 1–2 of Abraham Cowley’s Libri Plantarum Sex (1663)
William Barton (King’s College, London), Latin and the Vernacular in Early Modern Verona: Two Accounts of Trips to Monte Baldo
13-14: Lunch
The Graduate Space (in front of the Renaissance Centre, Humanities Building 4th Floor Extension)
14-15.00: Panel 2 - Chair: Dr. Paul Botley (English/Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, Warwick)
Prof. Giuliana Di Biase (Università G. d'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara Italy), Cicero’s Latin in Locke’s works. A case of misusing
Andrzej Probulski (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), A Council Divided: prudentia and anceps consilium in S. H. Lubomirski’s De vanitate consiliorum
15.00-15.30: Tea/Coffee
The Graduate Space (in front of the Renaissance Centre, Humanities Building 4th Floor Extension)
15.30-17: Panel 3 - Chair: Dr. Máté Vince
Prof. Hugh Roberts (University of Exeter) and Dr. Annette Tomarken (Miami University of Ohio), Despauterius, Bruscambille, and the Comedy of Latin Grammar
Dr. Paul White (University of Manchester), Teaching Latin in the Grammar Class on the cusp of the French Renaissance
Francesco Lucioli (University of Cambridge), The Advice of a Master: A Reading of Prospero Acrimato’s Pareneticum Carmen In Catonis Praecepta De Moribus
17-17.30 Tea/Coffee
17.30-18.30: Key-note Lecture:
Dr. Andrew Taylor (Churchill College, University of Cambridge)
Chair: Dr. Ingrid de Smet (Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, Warwick)
19: Conference Dinner (Xanana's)
Saturday, 26 April
The whole day takes place in Social Sciences, S0.10
10.00-11.30: Panel 4 - Chair: Dr. Teresa Grant (English Department, Warwick)
David Andrew Porter (University of Cambridge), The Prosody and Style of neo-Latin Satire in the 16th century
Sofia Guthrie (University of Warwick), A Protestant Palinurus: Virgilian sacrifice in Antoine Garissoles’ Adolphid
Rocco Di Dio (University of Warwick), Reading, Excerpting and Reusing Latin and Classical Texts: Marsilio Ficino and His Notebooks
11.30-12.00: Tea/Coffee
12.00-13.30: Panel 5 - Chair: Maya Feile Tomes (Classics, Cambridge)
Dr. John T. Gilmore (University of Warwick), Approaches to modern Latin poetry: Translating the Abbé Massieu’s Caffaeum, Carmen
Desiree Arbo (University of Warwick), Latin Epic and Platonism in the Jesuit Province of Paraguay
Prof. Andrew Laird (University of Warwick), Latin and education of the native nobility in post-conquest Mexico
13.30-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16: Panel 6 - Chair: Dr. Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Giacomo Comiati (University of Warwick), Presence and use of Horatian Carmina in Sixteenth-century Venice
Linda Grant (Birkbeck College), Imitatio, intertextuality and reception: re-writing classical Latin love elegy in sixteenth-century England
Aaron Shapiro (Boston University), Neo-Latin Imitation As Emendation: William Gager’s Supplements to Seneca’s Hippolytus
16: Closing remarks