Teacher
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DE SANCTIS Dino
(syllabus)
The course aims to analyze the diachronic path through which the Greek and Latin texts have come down to our days. A) In the first part of the course the writing supports used in antiquity for the transmission of texts will be studied: tablets, ostraka and papyrus, as well as the parchment code that imposes itself on the papyrus in a slow but inexorable passage between the 1st and 6th centuries AD. Therefore, the phases during which this new book form has the upper hand will be analyzed: medieval scriptoria and the Byzantine culture, to move on to Humanism and the publication of the first editiones principes. B) The subject of the second part of the course will be the "Lucretius case". The fortune of De rerum natura will be analyzed from the XV century until today after the revival of the poem due to the discovery of a code in 1417 by the humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Particular attention will be given to Giacomo Leopardi’s reflection about De rerum natura and to the use of the poem in Les Dieux ont soif , an historical novel by Anatole France, as well as to the influence of the story about the pest in Athens that Lucretius, on the thucydidean model, recalls in the VI book (1138-1296).
(reference books)
1) F. Stock, I classici dal papiro a internet, Roma 2012. 2) handouts distributed in class by the teacher.
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