our latest activities
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On the occasion of the doctoral conference Leggere, scrivere, studiare. L’attività intellettuale e le sue tracce, organized by the Department of Humanities of Università Roma Tre, Antonia Foggia presented a paper entitled Nel laboratorio di un magister quattrocentesco: tracce dell’attività didattica in un commento anonimo quattrocentesco a Ovidio e Virgilio (Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, V.D.52). The…
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On 28 April 2026, Maria Pilo, MA who has been at our department as Neo-Latin fellow since February gave her final talk about Gaspar Manius’ Commentary on Propertius’ Elegies. We are glad that you were here in Innsbruck for three month and wish you all the best for your future and your carreer!
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On 27 April 2026, the two members of the Innsbruck-based Lemnius team for the first time visited their project partners, Florian Hitz and Georg Heinzle, at the Staatsarchiv Graubünden in Chur. The meeting provided an opportunity to review the project’s progress and to view manuscripts of the Raeteid as well as relevant secondary literature in…
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At this year’s Long Night of Research (Lange Nacht der Forschung), our SRA organised a special reading of Neo-Latin literature: Neo-Latin texts by early modern woman writers. Johanna Luggin (PI of our SFB’s subproject ‘Latin of Queens, Abbesses, Scientists – Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin’) introduced three woman writers from the 16th, 17th, and 18th century,…
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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…
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Our researcher Veronica Papotti attended the inaugural meeting of the international network Canons of Latinity, 1150 to the Present, entitled Latin Responses to Horatian Lyric, 1150 to the Present, held in Oxford from 16 to 17 April 2026. The event brought together scholars working on the reception and transformation of Horace across a wide chronological spectrum, fostering…
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From 14 to 17 April 2026, Florian Schaffenrath took part in the so-called ‘standard setting’ process in Vienna: c. 25 people were preparing the Greek and Latin (including Neo-Latin) texts that are set for the final examination at the end of secondary school throughout Austria. The group of people working on these texts consists of…
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Will Barton gave workshops at high schools where he showed to pupils how we are processing old texts with the help of new technologies. On 28 January, he visited the Franziskaner Gymnasium Hall… and on 16 April 2026 the BORG Schwaz.
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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…
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To mark the official launch of our eight-year research project, we hosted an opening ceremony in the main university hall on 24 March 2026. Florian Schaffenrath, speaking on behalf of the SRA, welcomes all the guests present. The programme is accompanied by music from the Tyrolean string quartet Quartissimo. The Dean of our faculty, Prof…