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…
Orsola Lorena Purcaro (SP5 – Neo-Latin Translations – Bilingual Editions for Early Modern Readers) participated in the international conference Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of Autonomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance, organized by the Research Group “Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages” at the University of Jena, which took place…
From July 13 to 17, our team members Domenico Graziano, Tobias Heiss, and O. Lorena Purcaro participated in the ERASMOS Summer School on Classical Bilingualism at KU Leuven. The five‑day program explored code-switching, translation, and other manifestations of Latin–Greek bilingualism with leading international scholars. Next to a guided city tour with the organizer Raf Van…
Our researchers Antonia Foggia, Ada Migliazza, and O. Lorena Purcaro actively took part in the YRI Summer School “Print Culture and Translation in Central Europe (1500–1700): Methods, Problems and Approaches”, (Tallinn, 30 June–3 July 2026), organised by the COST Action CA23137 – PCPSCE and hosted by the Under and Tuglas Literary Institute of the Estonian Academy…
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.…
Domenico Graziano (SP1 – Coordination Project) and Orsola Lorena Purcaro (SP5 – Neo-Latin Translations – Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers) participated in the international conference Transfer of Knowledge in Auxiliary Texts to Greek and Latin Literature (14th–16th c.): The Making of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Canon, organized by Giandamiano Bovi and Vincenzo Damiani (Catania, 4–5 June…