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The Complexity of Roman Suicide Carmine Anthony Ruff
University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Master's Theses Student Research 1974 The complexity of Roman suicide Carmine Anthony Ruff Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses Part of the Classics Commons Recommended Citation Ruff, Carmine Anthony, "The ompc lexity of Roman suicide" (1974). Master's Theses. Paper 937. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Research at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE COMPLEXITY OF ROMAN SUICIDE BY CARMINE ANTHONY RUFFA A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES MAY 1974 APPROVAL SHEET ii TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE • . • • . .iv Chapter I. INTRODUCTION . • . • • • • . • • • • • . • 1 II. ANCIENT SUICIDE: A PROBLEM OF SEMANTICS. • • • • • • • • • • • • 5 Latin Citations to Suicide The Absence of A Standard Word Or Phrase III. PHILOSOPHIC SUICIDE . • .11 The Attitude of the Latin Philosophers Toward Suicide The Divergent Views of the Stoic Philosophers The Effect of Cato's Suicide on Stoicism IV. THE TREATMENT OF LUCRETIA'S SUICIDE BY LIVY AND AUGUSTINE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 4 4 Section I: Livy's Lucretia Section II: Augustine's Denunciation of Lucretia v. SUICIDE IN THE AENEID • • • • • • . .61 Vergii's Development of Dido's Suicidal Personality The Condemnation of Suicides in the Underworld Amata's Suicide CONCLUSION. .80 APPENDIX I • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 83 APPENDIX II • . .86 BIBLIOGRAPHY . .91 VITA . .99 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author would like to acknowledge two people who have influenced and inspired his academic and professional life. -
Boccaccio on Readers and Reading
Heliotropia 1.1 (2003) http://www.heliotropia.org Boccaccio on Readers and Reading occaccio’s role as a serious theorist of reading has not been a partic- ularly central concern of critics. This is surprising, given the highly B sophisticated commentary on reception provided by the two autho- rial self-defenses in the Decameron along with the evidence furnished by the monumental if unfinished project of his Dante commentary, the Espo- sizioni. And yet there are some very interesting statements tucked into his work, from his earliest days as a writer right to his final output, about how to read, how not to read, and what can be done to help readers. That Boccaccio was aware of the way genre affected the way people read texts is evident from an apparently casual remark in the Decameron. Having declared that his audience is to be women in love, he then announ- ces the contents of his book: intendo di raccontare cento novelle, o favole o parabole o istorie che dire le vogliamo. (Decameron, Proemio 13) The inference is that these are precisely the kinds of discourse appropriate for Boccaccio’s intended readership, lovelorn ladies. Attempts to interpret this coy list as a typology of the kinds of narration in the Decameron have been rather half-hearted, especially in commented editions. Luigi Russo (1938), for instance, makes no mention of the issue at all, and the same goes for Bruno Maier (1967) and Attilio Momigliano (1968). Maria Segre Consigli (1966), on the other hand, limits herself to suggesting that the three last terms are merely synonyms used by the author to provide a working definition of the then-unfamiliar term ‘novella’. -
Locating Boccaccio in 2013
Locating Boccaccio in 2013 Locating Boccaccio in 2013 11 July to 20 December 2013 Mon 12.00 – 5.00 Tue – Sat 10.00 – 5.00 Sun 12.00 – 5.00 The John Rylands Library The University of Manchester 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH Designed by Epigram 0161 237 9660 1 2 Contents Locating Boccaccio in 2013 2 The Life of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) 3 Tales through Time 4 Boccaccio and Women 6 Boccaccio as Mediator 8 Transmissions and Transformations 10 Innovations in Print 12 Censorship and Erotica 14 Aesthetics of the Historic Book 16 Boccaccio in Manchester 18 Boccaccio and the Artists’ Book 20 Further Reading and Resources 28 Acknowledgements 29 1 Locating Boccaccio Te Life of Giovanni in 2013 Boccaccio (1313-1375) 2013 is the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s twenty-first century? His status as one of the Giovanni Boccaccio was born in 1313, either Author portrait, birth, and this occasion offers us the tre corone (three crowns) of Italian medieval in Florence or nearby Certaldo, the son of Decameron (Venice: 1546), opportunity not only to commemorate this literature, alongside Dante and Petrarch is a merchant who worked for the famous fol. *3v great author and his works, but also to reflect unchallenged, yet he is often perceived as Bardi company. In 1327 the young Boccaccio upon his legacy and meanings today. The the lesser figure of the three. Rather than moved to Naples to join his father who exhibition forms part of a series of events simply defining Boccaccio in automatic was posted there. As a trainee merchant around the world celebrating Boccaccio in relation to the other great men in his life, Boccaccio learnt the basic skills of arithmetic 2013 and is accompanied by an international then, we seek to re-present him as a central and accounting before commencing training conference held at the historic Manchester figure in the classical revival, and innovator as a canon lawyer. -
Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla) 1–224, 498–521, 532–96, 648–89, 725–835 G
Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla) 1–224, 498–521, 532–96, 648–89, 725–835 G Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and commentary ILDENHARD INGO GILDENHARD AND JOHN HENDERSON A dead boy (Pallas) and the death of a girl (Camilla) loom over the opening and the closing part of the eleventh book of the Aeneid. Following the savage slaughter in Aeneid 10, the AND book opens in a mournful mood as the warring parti es revisit yesterday’s killing fi elds to att end to their dead. One casualty in parti cular commands att enti on: Aeneas’ protégé H Pallas, killed and despoiled by Turnus in the previous book. His death plunges his father ENDERSON Evander and his surrogate father Aeneas into heart-rending despair – and helps set up the foundati onal act of sacrifi cial brutality that caps the poem, when Aeneas seeks to avenge Pallas by slaying Turnus in wrathful fury. Turnus’ departure from the living is prefi gured by that of his ally Camilla, a maiden schooled in the marti al arts, who sets the mold for warrior princesses such as Xena and Wonder Woman. In the fi nal third of Aeneid 11, she wreaks havoc not just on the batt lefi eld but on gender stereotypes and the conventi ons of the epic genre, before she too succumbs to a premature death. In the porti ons of the book selected for discussion here, Virgil off ers some of his most emoti ve (and disturbing) meditati ons on the tragic nature of human existence – but also knows how to lighten the mood with a bit of drag. -
Expulsion from the Senate of the Roman Republic, C.319–50 BC
Ex senatu eiecti sunt: Expulsion from the Senate of the Roman Republic, c.319–50 BC Lee Christopher MOORE University College London (UCL) PhD, 2013 1 Declaration I, Lee Christopher MOORE, confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 2 Thesis abstract One of the major duties performed by the censors of the Roman Republic was that of the lectio senatus, the enrolment of the Senate. As part of this process they were able to expel from that body anyone whom they deemed unequal to the honour of continued membership. Those expelled were termed ‘praeteriti’. While various aspects of this important and at-times controversial process have attracted scholarly attention, a detailed survey has never been attempted. The work is divided into two major parts. Part I comprises four chapters relating to various aspects of the lectio. Chapter 1 sees a close analysis of the term ‘praeteritus’, shedding fresh light on senatorial demographics and turnover – primarily a demonstration of the correctness of the (minority) view that as early as the third century the quaestorship conveyed automatic membership of the Senate to those who held it. It was not a Sullan innovation. In Ch.2 we calculate that during the period under investigation, c.350 members were expelled. When factoring for life expectancy, this translates to a significant mean lifetime risk of expulsion: c.10%. Also, that mean risk was front-loaded, with praetorians and consulars significantly less likely to be expelled than subpraetorian members. -
[Life of Pompey] , Latin Translation by Antonius Tudertinus Pacinus
PLUTARCH, Pompei viri illustris vita [Life of Pompey] , Latin translation by Antonius Tudertinus Pacinus [or Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia] In Latin, decorated manuscript on paper Northern Italy, Lombardy, perhaps Ferrara or Mantova?, c. 1470-80 71 ff., preceded and followed by [3] paper flyleaves, complete (collation: i-vi10, vii10+1), vertical catchwords, on thick paper with watermark of the type Briquet, “Basilic,” no. 2671: Ferrare, 1471 or no. 2672-2673: Mantoue, 1478-1483, written in an Italian humanistic slightly sloping cursive script, in brown ink, on up to 21 long lines (justification 140 x 90 mm.), headings in margins in pale red ink, blank space left for initial on fol. 1, contemporary marginal annotations in brown ink. Nineteenth-century English brown Russia binding, smooth back with blind tooling and gilt lettering: ”Pompei Vita / Plutarchus / MS.”, blind-stamped and gilt with monogram and motto on upper board, and arms on lower cover, brown paper endleaves, edges gilt (Upper inner hinge loose, binding a bit scuffed, occasional minor stains to paper, else in very good condition). Dimensions 215 x 155 mm. Containing Plutarch’s life of Pompey the Great, the Roman republican hero often hailed as an antagonist of tyranny, this is one of about 50 recorded Renaissance manuscripts of the Latin translation from the Greek original completed by either Antonius Tudertinus Pacinus or Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia. The present manuscript provides testimony that the lives continued to circulate independently in manuscript form, even after their assembly into one common collection. PROVENANCE 1. Script and watermarks all point to an Italian origin for this manuscript, likely Northern Italy, Lombardy. -
North American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1991 (Through November, 1991) Compiled by Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Heliotropia 1.1 (2003) http://www.heliotropia.org North American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1991 (through November, 1991) Compiled by Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Books: Editions and Translations Boccaccio, Giovanni, Diana’s Hunt: Caccia di Diana. Boccaccio’s First Fiction, edited and translated by Anthony K. Cassell and Victoria Kirk- ham. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Pp. xvi + 255. ———, Ninfale fiesolano, a cura di Pier Massimo Forni. GUM, n.s., 196. Milano: Mursia, 1991. Pp. 208. Books: Critical Studies Doob, Penelope Reed, The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiq- uity through the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 355. [Contains sections on Boccac- cio’s Corbaccio and De Genealogia Deorum Gentilium.] Fleming, John V., Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer’s “Troilus”. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 276. Gilbert, Creighton E., Poets Seeing Artists’ Work: Instances in the Italian Renaissance. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1991. Pp. 293. [Contains a long section on “Boccaccio’s Admirations,” including “Boccaccio’s De- votion to Artists and Art”; “The Fresco by Giotto in Milan”; “Boccaccio Looking at Actual Frescoes”; and “On Castagno’s Nine Famous Men and Women.”] Gittes, Katharine S., Framing the “Canterbury Tales”: Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition. Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. 176. Hanly, Michael G., Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: “Troilus and Cri- seyde” (Four Perspectives on Influence). Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1990. McGregor, James H., The Image of Antiquity in Boccaccio’s “Filostrato,” “Filocolo,” and “Teseida.” “Studies in Italian Culture: Lit- erature and History,” I. -
The Amazon Myth in Western Literature. Bruce Robert Magee Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1996 The Amazon Myth in Western Literature. Bruce Robert Magee Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Magee, Bruce Robert, "The Amazon Myth in Western Literature." (1996). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 6262. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6262 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the tmct directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter 6ce, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely afreet reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. -
Boccaccio En Castilla: Entre Recepción Y Traducción
Cuadernos de Filología Italiana ISSN: 1133-9527 2001, n.º extraordinario: 333-350 Boccaccio en Castilla: entre recepción y traducción Carlos ALVA R Universidad de Alcalá La obra de pocos autores se presta mejor que la de Boccaccio para com- prender el itinerario seguido por las traducciones y las vicisitudes padecidas por los textos en Castilla durante el siglo XV. Autoridad indudable, citado como «orador» al lado de Petrarca y de Lucano, de Virgilio y Estacio, Boccaccio fue conocido desde época muy tem- prana debido a diversos factores. Es de todos bien sabido, gracias a las investigaciones de V. Branca y J. Arce, que durante los siglos XIV y XV se localizaban en la Península Ibérica hasta una treintena de códices con obras del Certaldés en latín o en italiano: De mulieribus, las Genealogie deorum, el De casibus o el Corbaccio, el Filocolo, el Filostrato, la Fiammetta y el Decameron1. La biblioteca del Marqués de Santillana, clave en la difusión de Boccaccio, tenía ejemplares de la Fiammetta, Filostrato, Corbaccio, Vita di Dante, Teseida y Filocolo, en italiano, y contaba, además, con traducciones cas- tellanas del Ninfal d’Ameto, Genealogía de los Dioses y De los montes, ríos e selvas. Y el Decamerón, posiblemente en castellano, figuraba entre los libros de la reina Isabel y entre los de don Rodrigo Pimentel, conde de Benavente... Pero es cierto que la mayor parte de los autores de esa época, en general, eran incapaces de leer el latín y cualquier otra lengua que no fuera el caste- llano, por lo que el alcance de estos textos debe considerarse más simbólico que real. -
The Knight's Tale and the Teseide
Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 1946 The Knight's Tale and the Teseide Mary Felicita De Mato Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation De Mato, Mary Felicita, "The Knight's Tale and the Teseide" (1946). Master's Theses. 134. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/134 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1946 Mary Felicita De Mato THE KNIGHT'S TALE AliD THE TESEIDE A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of English Loyola University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of .Arts by Sister Mary Felicite. De :WiRtO, O.S •.M. November 1946 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTI Oll • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 Historical and Literary Background • • • 1 The Poet•s Life • • • • • • • • • • • • 5 His Character • • • • • • • • • • • • • 9 His Friends • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 12 His Learning • • • • • • • • • • • • • 15 Relation to his Times • • • • • • • • • 17 II. CHAUCER AND THE RENAISSANCE • • • • • • • 22 Ohaucer•s relations with the Italian Language • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Chaucer and Dante • • • • • • • • • • • • Chaucer and Il Canzoniere • • • • • • • His use of Italian sources provided by Dante and Petrarch • • • • • • • • • • 42 His indebtedness to "Lollius" exclusive of the Knight's Tale • • • • • • • • • 47 III. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE ITALIAN POET'S LIFE. -
Creating with Anger: Contemplating Vendetta
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 2-2016 Creating with Anger: Contemplating Vendetta. An Analysis of Anger in Italian and Spanish Women Writers of the Early Modern Era Luisanna Sardu Castangia Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/770 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] CREATING WITH ANGER: CONTEMPLATING VENDETTA. AN ANALYSIS OF ANGER IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS OF THE EARLY MODERN ERA By LUISANNA SARDU CASTANGIA A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2016 © 2016 LUISANNA SARDU CASTANGIA All Rights Reserved CREATING WITH ANGER: CONTEMPLATING VENDETTA. AN ANALYSIS OF ANGER IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS OF THE EARLY MODERN ERA. by LUISANNA SARDU CASTANGIA This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature to satisfy the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Monica Calabritto ____________________________ ______________________________ Date Chair of Examining Committee Giancarlo Lombardi, Ph.D. _____________________________ ______________________________ Date Executive Officer Dr. Clare Carroll, Ph.D Dr. Lía Schwartz, Ph.D Supervisory Committee THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ABSTRACT CREATING WITH ANGER: CONTEMPLATING VENDETTA. AN ANALYSIS OF ANGER IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS OF THE EARLY MODERN ERA. -
379 '4/1 A'o, 7/Yv
379 '4/1 A'O, 7/YV THE CONFIDENT AMAZON: WARRIOR-WOMEN IN THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHRISTINE DE PIZAN THESIS Presented to the Graduate Council of the University of North Texas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS By Nona Faye Appel, B.F.A. Denton, Texas August, 1995 Appel, Nona Faye, The Confident Amazon: Warrior-Women in the Collected Works of Christine de Pizan. Master of Arts (Art History), August, 1995. 115 pp., 23 illus- trations, references, 52 titles. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the relationship between the images and texts concerning Amazons and warrior-women in the collected works of Christine de Pizan (London, BL, Harley MS 4431). It evaluates Christine's interpretation of the ancient story in light of her career as an author and publisher, and it compares her imagery to other representations of Amazons and warrior-women. This study indicates that Christine reworked the myth in a way that reflects her positive view of women and her desire to influence the queen of France, Isabeau de Baviere, who was the original owner of the manuscript. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO THE THREE LADIES Christine, Charity, and Sandra iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS..........................................iii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......................................vi Chapter 1. AMAZONS: THEIR MISOGYNIST BEGINNINGS...............1 Introduction.................................... 1 Statement of the Problem.........................5 Methodology..................................... 6 Review of the Literature.........................6 2. CHRISTINE DE PIZAN'S LITERARY CAREER...............11 A Summary of Christine's Life and Works....................................11 Christine's Patronage...........................20 Christine's Manuscript Workshop Career.......................................23 The Manuscript of Christine's Collected Works..............................25 3.