Dangerous Latin Literature: From Antiquity to the Modern Age. Proceedings of the International Conference in Turin, June 30 to July 1, 2022 / Elisa Della Calce, Simone Mollea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Della Calce, Elisa, editor.

Mollea, Simone, editor.

Series:

CICERO , 2567-0158 ; 12

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 458 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Elisa Della Calce, Universita di Torino, Italy; Simone Mollea, Universita di Torino/Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland.

Summary:

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Can a book really be dangerous? To take literally these words of Captain Beatty of Fahrenheit 451 one would say yes. Of course, even in this case, it is not the object book in and by itself to be regarded as dangerous, but its content. Yet in what terms is dangerousness to be conceived? Dangerous for whom? Dangerous when? Dangerous where? Dangerous why? It is sufficient to look for a general single answer to each of these questions to understand that the possible dangerousness of any one book involves several factors, starting with author(s) and recipient(s), time and place of the diffusion of a book, socio-political and religious constrictions. The papers of this volume throw further light on the dangers provoked by books as well as to the reactions to these dangers by focusing on Latin texts from antiquity to the Modern Age. Taken together, they broaden horizons by going beyond official notions of canons, expurgation, and book-burning, and leaving considerations of the notion of danger and the use of the Latin language as the only necessary criteria.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Front matter

Contents

1Introduction / Elisa Della Calce, Simone Mollea

History and Politics

1011 Relocating Cicero. Libri pericolosi alla corte di Augusto / Mario Lentano

29Existe-t-il, dans le recit livien, des indices dauto-censure et certains livres de lAb Vrbe Condita revetiraient-ils un caractere sulfureux? / Bernard Mineo

51La Germania most dangerous book da Tacito a Himmler: un approccio neuroscientifico / Massimo Manca

65When in doubt, follow Tacitus: Svetonio, autore pericoloso? / Pauline Duchene

85Historiae Externae. The Aftermath of the Dangerous (? ) Pompeius Trogus / Alice Borgna

Philosophy and Religion

112113Pericoli epicurei. Il pericolo dellEpicureismo per la societa romana / Guido Milanese

125Cramps, Diarrhea, and Fevers. The Dangers of Reading in Seneca and Epictetus / Margaret Graver

141Il dare vita alle statue: un inaccettabile episodio di idolatria nellAsclepius / Claudio Moreschini

163Scritture e canone nella stele cristiana di Xian e nello Zunjing / Chiara O. Tommasi

Pagan and Christian Poetry

190191Larte di amare (e di regnare): elegia erotica e modelli imperiali nellEpitalamio di Claudiano per Onorio e Maria / Stefano Briguglio

219Quod suppressit uerecunde. Tracce di un Virgilio censore in Servio / Alessio Ameduri

245Gods True Colours. The Challenges of Late Antique Poikilia in Ausonius, Paulinus and Prudentius Divine Images / Beatrice Bersani

279The Vine and the Branches: Prudentius, the Circle of Symmachus, and the Survival of the Latin Classics / Dirk Rohmann

The Modern Age: the Jesuit World and Beyond

310311Satira censurata. Le edizioni moralizzate di Orazio, Persio e Giovenale realizzate dai Gesuiti / Fabio Gatti

351Non possunt sine mentula placere. Obscenity and Philology in the Collection ad usum Delphini / Daniel Wendt

375Tradurre foedissima convicia: Pierre Poussines e lAlessiade di Anna Comnena / Gennaro Celato

403LAnatomia ingeniorum (1615) di Antonio Zara nel dibattito sulla sede dellanima nella prima eta moderna: tra censura e pedagogia / Linda Bisello

429Dangerous Books Beyond Europe: the Case of Jesuit Texts Related to China / Andrea Balbo

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-222583-X