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Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

Timetable 2023-24: Term 1, October - December 2023

1-3 School Colloquia

  • Pueriles confabulatiunculae - Gallus

  • Confabulationes - Schottenius

  • Dialogi Sacri - Castellion

4-6: Epistolary writing

  • Cicero’s letters, in Sturm’s edition

  • Petrarch, introduction to his collection of letters (Fam. I.1)

  • Petrarch’s letter to Cicero (Fam. XXIV, 3)

7-8 Narrative

  • Petrarch’s Ascent of Mt. Ventoux (Familiares. IV, 1)

9 Christmas texts

  • comparison of Vulgate and Erasmus's Novum Testamentum omne (1516)

  • Adeste fideles

Session 1, 9 October 2023
Session 2, 16 October 2023
  • Checking features covered in Session 1
  • Preface to Gallus' Confabulatiunculae
  • Dialogue between Corneliola and Dionysius (pdf, Gallus, p.19 ff.)
  • Principal parts, forming subjunctives
  • Handout and questions for Session 2
  • Answers to questions (posted Friday)

Session 3, 23 October 2023

Castellion (pdf)Link opens in a new window

Principal parts and use (1)

PowerpointLink opens in a new window

Session 4, 30 October 2023

Follow up Castellion

Selection from Sturm's Tullies EpistlesLink opens in a new window

About casesLink opens in a new window

Noun/exercise handoutLink opens in a new window 

Session 5, 6 November 2023

Answers to Session 4 questionsLink opens in a new window

Text Link opens in a new window(Petrarch)

Text (marked-up)

Session 6, 13 November 2023

Text (Letter to Cicero, Petrarch)

Text (chunked)

Exercises for next week

Session 7

Noun exercise (answersLink opens in a new window)

Text Link opens in a new window(Ascent of Ventoux)

Chunked Text and preparation for next week

Session 8

Text

Preparation for next week

Session 9 4 December

HandoutLink opens in a new window