Baroque Latinity

UCL, Department of Greek and Latin

A conference organized by
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies & The Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies

Friday &amp; Saturday
17 Sept – 18 September 2021
(online via UCL)


Provisional Programme


DAY 1: Friday, 17 September

1.50–2.00 Welcome
2.00–3.30 Panel I: ‘Style’
Jean David Eynard (Pembroke College, Cambridge): ‘“In Latine barbarous, and oft not without solecisms”: Milton and the Rhetoric of Faulty Concordances in Mid-Seventeenth Century England’
Valérie Wampfler (Université de Reims): ‘An Example of Baroque Latinity through the Inclusion of Ancient Literary Models into Modern Thoughts: Claude-Barthélemy Morisot’s Peruviana (1644)’
Javiera Lorenzini Raty (KCL): ‘Juvenalian Rage and Hermogenic Acrimonia: Scaliger’s Poetices Libri Septem and Late Elizabethan Satire’
3.30–4.00 Break
4.00–5.00 Panel II: ‘Music and Performance’
Eric Bianchi (Fordham University): ‘Asses at the Lyre: Latin as Musical Language, and the Benefits of Exclusion’
Adrian Horsewood (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire): ‘“Verbis piis ac devotis”: Non-Conformity in the Texts of Sacred Motets in 17th-Century Italy’
5.00–5.15 Break
5.15 – 6.15 Panel III: ‘Drama’
Jan Bloemendal (Royal Netherlands Academy/Huygens Institute): ‘What is a Baroque Tragedy?’
James Parente (University of Minnesota): ‘What Makes Tragedy Baroque?’


DAY 2: Saturday, 18 September

1.50–2.00 Welcome back
2.00–3.30 Panel IV: ‘Religion’
Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford): ‘Catullan Literary Friendship in Baroque Rome: Classicising Hendecasyllables by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (the Future Pope Urban VIII)’
Alison Shell (UCL): ‘Christ’s Blood or Mary’s Milk? “Clarus Bonsarcius”, Baroque Piety, and English Protestant Outrage’
Patryk Ryczkowski (Universität Innsbruck): ‘Verse Hagiography in the Baroque: The Case of St. Casimir Jagiellon’
3.30–4.00 Break
4.00–5.00 Panel V: ‘Poetic Circles’
Beate Hintzen (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): ‘A Circle of Poets at Leipzig and the Mannerism of their Latinity’
Gorana Stepanić (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula): ‘Writing High and Low: Generic, Stylistic, Geographic, and Social Stratifications of the Baroque Latin Poetry in South Eastern Europe’
5.00–5.15 Break
5.15–6.15 Panel VI: ‘Poetic and Rhetorical Theory’
Lucy Nicholas (KCL/Warburg Institute): ‘The Sixteenth Century’s Impact on Neo-Latin Baroque Rhetoric’
Tomas Riklius (Vilnius University): ‘The Innovator of Baroque Literature: M. C. Sarbievius’ De acuto et arguto’
6.15–6.30 Final Remarks, Conclusion

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