Adriaan Demuynck (KU Leuven / FWO) On 27 February 1565, the new city hall of Antwerp was formally inaugurated, exactly four years after the first stone was laid. To adorn the opening of this prestigious Renaissance building, two young poets joined forces and wrote a collection of city encomia or laudes urbis on the cityContinue reading “Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other”
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Στεναγμοὶ τῶν ναυτῶν: Traveling from France to Greece in the 1830s
Lev Shadrin (Universität Innsbruck) <…> καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα, καίπερ μαλακὸν ὂν, ὤθησεν ἡμᾶς πρὸς Ἄνδρον. Στεναγμοὶ τῶν ναυτῶν.“<…> and the wind, as gentle as it was, pushed us towards the Andros island.Sailors groan.”GSA 108/2922, Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv Weimar, f.51v In 1837, Karl Benedikt Hase, a Franco-German Hellenist working in Paris, made a two-month long tripContinue reading “Στεναγμοὶ τῶν ναυτῶν: Traveling from France to Greece in the 1830s”
Erasmus and Budé: Frenemies forever!
Liese Dictus (KU Leuven) Erasmus’ sharp pen was a force to be reckoned with by his contemporaries. In his famous Praise of Folly the humanist author spared no one in society, including himself. Similarly, Erasmus proved in his letters that he could deal harsh blows with his pen strokes. A letter to the French humanistContinue reading “Erasmus and Budé: Frenemies forever!”
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