Studies in Classical Literature and Culture – serie

Das Buch untersucht die Karriere des Eunuchen Narses und bietet einen Einblick in die Faktoren, die zu seinem politischen Aufstieg beitrugen. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht sein realer Wirkungskreis, der sich im Laufe vieler Missionen kristallisierte, während er als kaiserlicher Sonderbeauftragter agierte.

Nel solco degli studi sul "greco umanistico", che negli ultimi decenni hanno conosciuto un notevole e fervido sviluppo, il volume presenta il caso di una rara traduzione in greco classico della celebre orazione "Pro Archia poeta" di Cicerone. Com’è noto, a partire da Petrarca e per generazioni essa costituì un’ode alla bellezza e al giovamento procurati dall’arte e dalla poesia. Lo studio, oltre a proporre il testo, accompagnato da un’approfondita analisi linguistico-filologico-stilistica, mira a far luce sul contesto storico-letterario in cui operò l’autore, il polacco Mikołaj Z˙órawski (1595-1665). Figura poco nota del primo barocco sarmatico, fu non soltanto astrologo e medico, ma altresì appassionato traduttore di Cicerone all’Accademia di Cracovia.

In the wake of the studies on Humanist Greek, which have recently known a lively development, the volume presents the case of a rare Greek translation of Cicero’s speech "Pro Archia poeta". As is known, starting from Petrarch and for generations the oration represented an ode to the beauty and the benefits deriving from art and poetry. The book provides the text, accompanied by an in-depth linguistic and stylistical analysis, and it also sheds light on the historical and literary background in which the author worked. The Pole Mikołaj Z˙órawski (1595-1665), an interesting though little known figure of the early Polish Baroque, was not only an astrologer and a physician, but also a passionate translator of Cicero at the Academy of Cracow.

Juliusz Domański, whose book Le texte comme présence was published recently in our series, wrote his doctoral thesis (printed in 1966) on Fannietum, a cycle of amatory elegies by Filippo Buonaccorsi (Callimachus), a humanist exiled from Italy who settled in Poland and exerted influence on the development of the Polish Renaissance. The thesis, written in admirable Latin, discusses Callimachus' use of the works of ancient Latin elegiac poets. Due to a lack of paper, the last two chapters were omitted from the book and printed in a journal as recently as 2014. The present book contains the whole of the dissertation as well as the text of Fannietum to which the author constantly refers.

Dans l'ouvrage de Juliusz Domański, Philippe Callimachus trouve une nouvelle présence. Les analyses de ses élégies, conduites avec une érudition philologique d'une rigueur exceptionnelle, mettent en lumière le dialogue intertextuel qu'il entretient avec la littérature antique et ouvrent l'accès à l'univers riche et nuancé de la culture de la Renaissance. Maria Chantry, University of Wrocław, Poland

Callimaco aspira ad una fusione di orizzonti psicologici ed esistenziali con gli elegiaci latini del I sec. a.C. Con impeccabili acribia filologica e conoscenza dei motivi intellettuali dell'epoca Domański ri-presenta tale aspirazione, accompagnando il lettore in un affascinante viaggio nei meandri del processo poetico di questo singolare umanista quattrocentesco.Danilo Facca, Institute of Philosophy and sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland