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Love and Heroism in Early-Modern Latin Epic Poetry

Programme

Thursday, 20 September 2018

13.30–14.15 Opening remarks

Reception of Antiquity and Preconditions of Early Modern Epic Love
 
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


Love in Neo-Latin Epic from Italy

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

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

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


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