Workshop
Workshop Assessing Cicero's (in)constantia through the ages
- Date
- Friday 21 June 2019 - Saturday 22 June 2019
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 148
Program Workshop “Assessing Cicero’s (in)constantia through the Ages” at Leiden University as part of the VIDI project ‘Mediated Cicero’ (PI Christoph Pieper)
Friday 21 June 2019: Antiquity
Venue: LIPSIUS 148
12.30-13.00 Welcome & Introduction (Christoph Pieper)
13.00-13.45 Matthew Roller (Baltimore), Philosophical and rhetorical perspectives on Ciceronian constancy
13.45-14.30 Yannick Zanetti (Genève), Some implications of metaphorical aspects of constantia in Cicero’s work
14.30-15.00 Coffee/tea break
15.00-15.45 Viola Maria Periti (Pavia/Leiden), Cicero’s construction of a consistent authorial persona in the prefaces of his rhetorical and philosophical works
15.45-16.30 Biagio Santorelli (Genova), Aude perire, placiturus es. The earliest construction of Cicero’s (in)constantia in the school of rhetoric
16.30-16.45 Fresh air break
16.45-17.30 Tommaso Ricchieri (Padova), Frustra calumniantur Ciceroni. Defending Ciceroʼs inconstantia in Pseudo-Asconiusʼs commentary on the Verrines
17.30-18.15 Leanne Jansen (Leiden), Runaway Cicero and republican ethos in imperial Greek historiography
18.30 Drinks (Het Keizertje)
Saturday 22 June 2019: Middle Ages, Early Modern and Modern Times
Venue: LIPSIUS 148
10.00-10.45 Karl Enenkel (Münster), Petrarch, the active and contemplative life, and Cicero
10.45-11.30 Megan Welton (Utrecht), Constantia, virtus, and civic discord in the early Middle Ages
11.30-12.15 Christoph Pieper (Leiden): Das also war des Ciceros Kern. Cicero’s image in the viri illustres-tradition and adherent genres between late antiquity and the early Italian Renaissance
12.15-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Guided tour to the Bibliotheca Thysiana (Paul Hoftijzer, P.A. Tiele Professor in the History of the Early-Modern Dutch Book)
14.30-15.15 Bram van der Velden (Leiden), Ciceronian reception and Ciceronian Echtheitskritik
15.15-16.00 Joanna Kenty (Nijmegen), Singing a different tune. Cicero’s palinode and its reception
16.00-16.30 Coffee/tea break
16.30-17.30 Final discussion