Studies on Horace's Renaissance: Horace's Fortune in early modernity: a poetical laboratory – ERHO
ERHO
Studies on Horace's Renaissance. Horace's Fortune in early modernity: a poetical laboratory
Revaluation of Horace's place as theorist and model of Renaissance poetry
Horace's influence as a theorist and a practitioner of poetry has been consistently overlooked or downplayed by critics over the last decades, while Aristotle is still considered almost as the only ancient reference in terms of poetical theory. Meanwhile, the reception of a poet like Ovid has produced a significant number of studies, and the revival of rhetoric studies has highlighted the central importance of Cicero and Quintilian. <br />Yet Horace plays a key-role in the development of Renaissance poetry, because he is both a theorist and a model for an tremendously inventive and varied lyrical poetry. He also stands as an author-cum-poet, speaking in the first person, and as such the inventor of a new form of personal poetic discourse<br />
We aim at offering online editions of all the humanist editions of Horace with their commentaries, as well as a number of translations digitized both in image and text modes. These will be enriched by a network of hypertextual links and a series of essays, with a view to showing how Horace's œuvre became a poetic laboratory for humanist and seventeenth-century Europe.
Online editions in image mode and text mode of several Horace's humanist editions
Organization of a seminar and of 4 conference days
Publication online: Camenae 13, october 2012
Workshop in Italy: Horatian Fortune in neolatine Europe (villa Vigoni octobre 2012)
Continuation of edition work
International congress in october 2013
Seminar and conference days
Colloquium and Books
Online publication: Camenae 13: Horace l'autre poétique
3 books to come
Workshop, part II and III (Villa Vigoni, juin 2013-juin 2014)
Horace's influence as a theorist and a practitioner of poetry has been consistently overlooked or downplayed by critics over the last decades, while Aristotle is still considered almost as the only ancient reference in terms of poetical theory. Meanwhile, the reception of a poet like Ovid has produced a significant number of studies, and the revival of rhetoric studies has highlighted the central importance of Cicero and Quintilian.
Yet Horace plays a key-role in the development of Renaissance poetry, because he is both a theorist and a model for an tremendously inventive and varied lyrical poetry. He also stands as an author-cum-poet, speaking in the first person, and as such the inventor of a new form of personal poetic discourse.
We aim at offering online editions of all the humanist editions of Horace with their commentaries, as well as a number of translations digitized both in image and text modes. These will be enriched by a network of hypertextual links and a series of essays, with a view to showing how Horace's œuvre became a poetic laboratory for humanist and seventeenth-century Europe.
Project coordination
Nathalie DAUVOIS (UNIVERSITE DE PARIS III) – ndauvois@gmail.com
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partner
UNIVERSITE DE PARIS III
Help of the ANR 185,000 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
July 2011
- 48 Months
