On October 19, 2026, Federica Rossetti delivered a seminar at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in Vilnius, entitled “Polish and Lithuanian Aristocracy in Basel in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: The Network of Celio Secondo Curione.” The seminar explored the well-documented formation of European networks connecting Eastern European elites with Reformed…
On September 22, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Saskia Limbach at our department. Her visit began with a dynamic round-table with department and project members, offering a fantastic opportunity to share our ongoing research and exchange project ideas. Later, Dr. Limbach presented key insights from her ERC-funded project, WidowsPrint. Her talk, with the…
From July 26 to August 1, 2026, we hosted the Aurora Summer School “NeoLEMoS” (Neo-Latin for Early Modern Studies), organized by Federica Rossetti and Patryk Ryczkowski in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. The event brought together students and lecturers from ten European countries, fostering a lively and…
On July 1st, 2026, Federica Rossetti delivered a presentation at the conference “Paratextes polygraphes et plurilingues de l’Antiquité à l’époque moderne”, hosted by the Collège de France in Paris. Her paper, entitled “Les paratextes multilingues dans le cercle érasmien. Pratiques et enjeux du plurilinguisme humaniste à Bâle”, explored the phenomena of Renaissance multilingualism and polygraphy.…
On April 22, 2026, Federica Rossetti and Riccardo Stigliano delivered a lecture for Master and PhD students in the Degree Program in Philology at Roma Tre University. The session focused on the reception of the Orphic Argonautica in Italian Humanism, combining close readings from the original Greek text with passages from Basinio da Parma’s Argonautica. By…
On 14 April 2026, the SRA team had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Paolo Rondinelli (Università Telematica Pegaso), invited to Innsbruck by Prof. Christine Franziska Konecny to give a lecture on his recent critical edition of Francesco Serdonati’s Proverbi Italiani. We are very pleased with the stimulating exchange of ideas and perspectives we had with…