Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism

by Han Lamers
Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism
Author: Han Lamers
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2020-06-19
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9462702071
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First collected volume dealing with the use of Latin under Fascism This book deals with the use of Latin as a literary and epigraphic language under Italian Fascism (1922–1943). The myth of Rome lay at the heart of Italian Fascist ideology, and the ancient language of Rome, too, played an important role in the regime’s cultural politics. This collection deepens our understanding of ‘Fascist Latinity’, presents a range of previously little-known material, and opens up a number of new avenues of research. The chapters explore the pivotal role of Latin in constructing a link between ancient Rome and Fascist Italy; the different social and cultural contexts in which Latin texts functioned in the ventennio fascista; and the way in which ‘Fascist Latinity’ relied on, and manipulated, the ‘myth of Rome’ of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy. Contributors: William Barton (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Xavier van Binnebeke (KU Leuven), Paolo Fedeli (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro), Han Lamers (University of Oslo), Johanna Luggin (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Antonino Nastasi (Rome), Bettina Reitz-Joosse (University of Groningen), Dirk Sacré (KU Leuven), Valerio Sanzotta (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), Wolfgang Strobl (Toblach).

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

by Roy Gibson
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
Author: Roy Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1132
Release: 2024-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108369189
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The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis

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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 797
Release: 2024-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004695583
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Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.

Restorations of Empire in Africa

by Samuel Agbamu
Restorations of Empire in Africa
Author: Samuel Agbamu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2024-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 019266459X
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing borders and charting shorelines; in the process, inventing Africa. This was a project anchored in ancient Greek and Roman representations of Africa. For Italy, colonialism in Africa was a matter of consolidating its project of national unification, nominally completed in 1870 with the capture of Rome. By asserting its position as an imperial power, the young nation of Italy hoped to join the club of European nation-states and, in so doing, be rid of the perception that it was a country somewhere in between Europe and Africa. Yet, Italy's colonial endeavour in Africa was also a project with deep historical meaning. Italy posed its imperial project in Africa as a national return to territory which was rightfully Italian. Italian ideologues of imperialism based this claim on the history of Roman history on the continent. When Italian soldiers disembarked on the beaches of Libya during Italy's invasion of 1911-1912, and came across the ruins of Roman imperialism, they were, according to prominent cultural and political figures in Italy, rediscovering the traces of their ancestors. Yet, when Italian imperial ambitions set their sights on East Africa, regions that had not been conquered by Rome, how could Italy nevertheless shape its imperial project in the image of ancient Rome? This book charts this story. Beginning with Italy's first imperial endeavours on the African continent in the last decades of the nineteenth century and continuing right through to Italy's current attitudes towards Africa, this book argues that empire in Africa was a central aspect of Italian nation-building, and that this was a project which anchored itself in memories of ancient Rome in Africa. Although Fascism's invasion of Ethiopia (1935-1936) is the best-known moment of Italian imperialism in Africa, this book shows that Italian imperialism, modelled on ancient Rome, has a history which long predates Mussolini's movement, and has a legacy which continues to be acutely felt.

Neulateinisches Jahrbuch

by Marc Laureys
Neulateinisches Jahrbuch
Author: Marc Laureys
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3487160722
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Detaillierte Informationen zum Neulateinischen Jahrbuch erhalten Sie hier: https://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/de/medneolat/neulateinisches-jahrbuch Conspectus rerum In memoriam MARCUS DE SCHEPPER, Nachruf auf Jeanine De Landtsheer I. Commentationes EDUARDO DEL PINO, La Victoriae in freto Gaditano descriptio de Bonaventura Vulcanio: un caso más del “limae labor” de los autores neo-latinos / STEFAN ELIT, Ein kaiserlicher Wüterich und zwei antagonistische Simons. Der Nero furens als Beispiel aus dem Paderborner Jesuitendramenkorpus / PETER GROSSARDT, Sprachliche Bemerkungen zu Poggio Bracciolinis Brief aus Baden (I 46 Harth) / DELILA JORDAN, Die beiden frühneuzeitlichen Editionen des Berichts von Martin Baumgartners Reise ins Heilige Land zwischen literarischer Aneignung und wissenschaftlicher Editionsarbeit / WALTHER LUDWIG, Die Epigrammatum libelli quatuor von Salomon Frenzel (1588) – eine biographische und literarische Auswertung / WALTHER LUDWIG, Musik in Ferrara – der Hymnus an die ‚Musica‘ des Girolamo Faletti (1557) und die Nutricia des Angelo Poliziano / PATRYK M. RYCZKOWSKI, Paraphrasis historiae de Susanna by Adamus Placotomus Silesius and the ‘raptularius’ (notebook) of Mikolaj Lubomirski / ROLAND SAUER, Vitae Melissi. Die frühen Lebensbeschreibungen des Paulus Schedius Melissus / FLORIAN SCHAFFENRATH, Das Lob Venedigs und seiner Krieger: Francesco Modestis Venetias (1521) / RAPHAEL SCHWITTER, „I, liber, in tenebras!“ Zur antiislamischen Versinvektive des Martin Le Franc und einem neuen Textzeugen der Errores legis Mahumeti des Juan de Segovia in BnF, Ms. lat. 3669 / GÁBOR TÜSKÉS, The Re-Evaluation of Ferenc Rákóczi II’s Confessio peccatoris II. Investigandarum rerum prospectus REINHOLD F. GLEI, Neulateinische Forschungsprojekte / PATRYK M. RYCZKOWSKI, Caelestis Hierusalem Cives. The Role and Function of the Latin Hagiographic Epic in Early Modern Saint-Making: An Introduction to a New Research Project III. Librorum existimationes Oleg Nikitinski, Lateinische Musterprosa und Sprachpflege der Neuzeit. (17. – Anfang des 19. Jhs.). Ein Wörterbuch (ALEXANDER WINKLER) / André Schnyder (Hrsg.), Maria die Himmels-Thür. Ein anonymes Theophilus-Drama 1655 bei den Straubinger Jesuiten aufgeführt (STEFAN ELIT) / Craig Kallendorf, Printing Virgil. The Transformation of the Classics in the Renaissance (MARIJKE CRAB) / André Delvaux, Barthélemy Latomus, pédagogue et conseiller humaniste (FRANCIS GOYET) / Wilhelm Kühlmann (Hrsg.), Prata Florida. Neue Studien anlässlich des dreißigjährigen Bestehens der Heidelberger Sodalitas Neolatina (NIKLAS GUTT) / François Goyet / Delphine Denis (éd.), Joseph de Jouvancy : L’élève de rhétorique (CHRISTOPHE MARINHEIRO) / Han Lamers / Bettina Reitz-Joosse / Valerio Sanzotta (ed.), Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism (ROBERT SEIDEL) IV. Quaestiones recentissimae WALTHER LUDWIG, Die Klage der Latrine von Carolus Liebardus Langmarcaeus und das Erasmische Lob der Torheit

Fascism: A Very Short Introduction

by Kevin Passmore
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Kevin Passmore
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191508551
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What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ordered society? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world—tracing its origins in the intellectual, political, and social crises of the late nineteenth century, the rise of fascism following World War I, including fascist regimes in Italy and Germany, and the fortunes of 'failed' fascist movements in Eastern Europe, Spain, and the Americas. He also considers fascism in culture, the new interest in transnational research, and the progress of the far right since 2002. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Codex Fori Mussolini

by Han Lamers
The Codex Fori Mussolini
Author: Han Lamers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2016-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474226973
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The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering crowds, a metal box lies immured in the obelisk's base. It contains a few gold coins and, written on a piece of parchment, a Latin text: the Codex fori Mussolini. What does this text say? Why was it buried there? And why was it written in Latin? The Codex, composed by the classical scholar Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci (1867-1960), presents a carefully constructed account of the rise of Italian Fascism and its leader, Benito Mussolini. Though written in the language of Roman antiquity, the Codex was supposed to reach audiences in the distant future. Placed under the obelisk with future excavation and rediscovery in mind, the Latin text was an attempt at directing the future reception of Italian Fascism. This book renders the Codex accessible to scholars and students of different disciplines, offering a thorough and wide-ranging introduction, a clear translation, and a commentary elucidating the text's rhetorical strategies, historical background, and specifics of phrasing and reference. As the first detailed study of a Fascist Latin text, it also throws new light on the important role of the Latin language in Italian Fascist culture.

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics

by Erik Jones
The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics
Author: Erik Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2015
Genre: Italy
ISBN: 0199669740
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The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies. Under the hegemonic influence of Christian Democracy in the early post-World War II decades, Italy went through a period of rapid growth and political transformation. In part this resulted in tumult and a crisis of governability; however, it also gave rise to innovation in the form of Eurocommunism and new forms of political accommodation. The great strength of Italy lay in its constitution; its great weakness lay in certain legacies of the past. Organized crime--popularly but not exclusively associated with the mafia--is one example. A self-contained and well entrenched 'caste' of political and economic elites is another. These weaknesses became apparent in the breakdown of political order in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This ushered in a combination of populist political mobilization and experimentation with electoral systems design, and the result has been more evolutionary than transformative. Italian politics today is different from what it was during the immediate post-World War II period, but it still shows many of the influences of the past.