Love and Heroism in Early-Modern Latin Epic Poetry
Programme
Thursday, 20 September 2018
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13.30–14.15 | Opening remarks |
Reception of Antiquity and Preconditions of Early Modern Epic Love |
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14.15–15.00 | Elisabeth Klecker (Vienna), Continuing Virgil’s Dido Episode |
15.00–15.45 | Paul Gwynne (Rome), Love and Heroism in Jesuit Epic: Refashioning Nisus and Euryalus |
15.45–16.00 | Break |
16.00–16.45 | Sofia Guthrie (Warwick), Fatal Attraction: The Afterlife of Dido in Antoine Garissoles’ Adolphid (1649) |
16.45–17.30 | Robert Kirstein (Tübingen), Lost in Early Modern Intertextualities. Heroic Love in Neo-Latin Epic |
Friday, 21 September 2018 |
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Love in Neo-Latin Epic from Italy |
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09.00–09.45 | Giovanni Cascio (Barcelona), Sophonisba between Petrarch and Boccaccio |
09.45–10.30 | Jeroen De Keyser (Leuven), Quid non cogat amor? Carlo Gonzaga’s Love Story with Lyda in Filelfo’s Sphortias |
10.30–10.45 | Break |
10.45–11.30 | Christian Peters (Bonn), What Happens in Vada, Stays in Vada? Imagining and Sanctioning Extramarital Love of Quattrocento Epic Heroes – Models and Measurement |
11.30–12.15 | Florian Schaffenrath (Innsbruck), Auria and Vasilinda and their Failed Love for Columbus and his Son Fernandus |
12.15–14.15 | Lunch break |
Different Regional Approaches |
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14.15–14.30 | Presentation of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Programmes |
14.30–15.15 | Petra Šoštarić (Zagreb), All the King's Women and Some Boys: Love and Heroism in Croatian Neo-Latin Epic |
15.15–16.00 | Keith Sidwell (Calgary), No love, please! We’re British! British Epic and the Loveless Hero |
16.00–16.15 | Break |
16.15–17.00 | Dennis Pulina (Freiburg), Maximilian‘s Fight against a once Loving Enemy and against Venus herself – Heroism without Love in Bartholini’s Austrias |
20.00 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, 22 September 2018
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09.00–09.45 | Elena Dahlberg (Uppsala), Marital Love versus the Call of Duty: the Dilemma of Gustavus Adolphus in two 17thcentury Epics |
Biblical Epic Poetry |
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09.45–10.30 | Wolfgang Polleichtner (Tübingen), Successful and Unsuccessful Love Stories in Vida's Christiad |
10.30–11.15 | Alexander Winkler (Bonn), The Pitfall of Love in Religious Neo-Latin Epic Poetry: The Case of Judith and Holofernes |
11.15–11.30 | Closing Remarks |