Departamento de Filología Clásica

In this paper we provide the critical edition, first translation and commentary of the poem entitled Ad statuam puellae, written by the Portuguese humanist Miguel da Silva. The commentary allows us to establish a connection between the text and the " Fontana della Vergine " in Villa Giulia at Rome and particularly with one of its statues. On the other hand, the poem reinforces one of the hypotheses about the general conception of that architectural complex.

The Spanish humanist Juan Páez de Castro (ca. 1510-1570) lived in Italy since 1545 to 1554. In that time he copied Latin poems by Italian writers, which are nowadays kept by "El Escorial" Monastery Library (Spain). These poems (most of them later changed and published by their authors) are edited and studied in this paper.

The Vatican Library holds an unedited manuscript (ms. Vat. lat. 5225, iv,
f. 879r-880r) attributed to the Italian bishop Giacinto Frangipane. This paper includes the first critical edition, translation and study of the aforementioned text. In our study, we contend that the text is a Horatian epistle composed as a receptio of the Spanish humanist Juan de Verzosa’s Epistolarum libri. We also argue a hypothesis about the epistle place and date of composition: Rome in 1567.

In this paper it is studied the reception of the Ariadna's myth by some Spanish contemporary poets. The comparision with an unknown Neolatin text from the Renaissance allows us to show that the technique of "subversion" was practised since then.

The intersection of Latin letters and poems written by Bonaventura Vulcanius reveals some new and interesting aspects of his biblical project.
According to the "décret du 3 mai 2018 adopté par le Parlement de la Communauté française de Belgique et en accord avec les décisions de Latomus comité de rédaction", I upload only the text evaluated and accepted by the Journal to be published in its issue 78. 4 (2019). You are expected to contact with the Jounal to have it in paper or in its pdf file.

Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate 23 Introdução (pp. xxvii-xxxii). Além disso, pela indagação da arete, este tratado abre outros domínios temáticos dentro das qualidades éticas e morais, em especial das mulheres, mas também, por comparação, dos homens.

In this article, a draft of "Protrepticon ad Belgas", a Latin poem written by the humanist Bonaventura Vulcanius, is scholarly edited, translated and commented. In it, the author describes and criticises the Spanish Inquisition. The corrections made on the text draft allow us to speculate on the causes motivating the limae labor, whether these have been stylistic, metrical or also ideological.

The Italian doctor and antiquarian Girolamo Mercuriale meant to be the first
humanist to make use of his knowledge in antiquarianism to better understand passages of
meals in the Gospels, according to the Latin text of the Vulgata. He showed it in his book
De arte gymnastica (1573), 2nd edition, chapter I, XI. Notwithstanding, Fulvio Orsini published
the same contents in his work De triclinio (1588), where he incorporated as well some old
drafts of the already died Spanish Pedro Chacón († 1581). As soon as De triclinio was published,
Mercuriale accused Orsini and Chacón of plagiarism. However, in 1601 he nearly refused his
originality in the topic. This paper deals with the possible reasons of retracting and the context
of this controversy.