IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1322: Ancient Presences, III: Petrarch, the Cronaca di Partenope, and the Myth of Naples
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Medieval Studies Program, Rutgers University, New Jersey |
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Organiser: | John B. Dillon, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Moderator/Chair: | Christian Rohr, Fachbereich Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
Paper 1322-a | Epic Imitation of Virgil in Petrarch's Africa (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Paper 1322-b | Legendary Founders in 14th-Century Naples (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Social History |
Paper 1322-c | Sebethus and his Daughters: Mythologizing Water in Aragonese Naples (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Social History |
Abstract | This session continues the "Ancient Presences" consideration of engagement with Roman antiquity by medieval writers in Latin (chiefly), Spanish, and Italian. Andrew Laird will focus on Petrarch's relationship to the ancient epic poet Vergil as seen in his own heroic epic, Africa, dedicated to Robert of Anjou, king of Sicily. Samantha Kelly will discuss late medieval constructions of the ancient past in Robert's capital city, Naples, as evidenced by the fourteenth-century Cronaca di Partenope. John Dillon will examine the classicizing personification of watercourses, springs, and fountains by fifteenth-century Neapolitan humanists associated with the Crown. |