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DATE CHANGE: From the Barbarians to the Barberini

DATE CHANGE: From the Barbarians to the Barberini

Classics | College of Arts and Humanities Wednesday, November 2, 2016 4:30 pm

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Join us for a talk by Professor John McLucas of Towson University, who will be teaching a course in spring semester on the reception of ancient Roman culture in Italy.  His talk is entitled "From the Barbarians to the Barberini:  Rome's Monumental and Intellectual Survival and Renewal."  It will be preceded by refreshments.

From late Antiquity through early modern times, the city of Rome underwent, first, catastrophic population loss and degradation of its monumental infrastructure, and then gradual and sporadic revitalization of its urban and social fabric.  The prestige of the ancient city continued to haunt the European imagination.  This lingering glamor pervades both the intellectual culture of the mediaeval West and the artful reuse of surviving ancient architectonic elements in newer buildings in the city itself.  It also prepares fertile ground for the full-fledged cultural ‘rebirth’ of the 15th and 16th centuries.

John C. McLucas (BA Wesleyan, Latin Classics; PhD Yale, Italian Language and Literature) is Professor of Italian and Latin in the Department of Foreign Languages at Towson University.  His poetry and short fiction, in Italian and English translation, has appeared in VIA: Voices in Italian America.  His scholarly work includes numerous conference papers and published articles on the Italian epic tradition, particularly Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, in journals including Italian Culture, The Italianist, and Stanford Italian Studies; his reviews have appeared in Forum Italicum and Speculum.  His translations of sixteenth-century Latin documents about the first encounter between Europe and America were published by UCLA in the Repertorium Columbianum series in 2002.  He is a frequent contributor to the Italian humanities journal Lyceum, with pieces on topics ranging from national identity to the Italian opera tradition.  He recently completed a translation of Tullia d’Aragona’s epic-romance, Il Meschino, altramente detto il Guerrino (1560); edited and annotated by Julia L. Hairston, it is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in the series, “The Other Voice.”  Dr. McLucas’ article on approaches to teaching Ariosto was published in 2016 in the journal Italica.

Add to Calendar 11/02/16 4:30 PM 11/02/16 4:30 PM America/New_York DATE CHANGE: From the Barbarians to the Barberini

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED DATE AND ROOM!

Join us for a talk by Professor John McLucas of Towson University, who will be teaching a course in spring semester on the reception of ancient Roman culture in Italy.  His talk is entitled "From the Barbarians to the Barberini:  Rome's Monumental and Intellectual Survival and Renewal."  It will be preceded by refreshments.

From late Antiquity through early modern times, the city of Rome underwent, first, catastrophic population loss and degradation of its monumental infrastructure, and then gradual and sporadic revitalization of its urban and social fabric.  The prestige of the ancient city continued to haunt the European imagination.  This lingering glamor pervades both the intellectual culture of the mediaeval West and the artful reuse of surviving ancient architectonic elements in newer buildings in the city itself.  It also prepares fertile ground for the full-fledged cultural ‘rebirth’ of the 15th and 16th centuries.

John C. McLucas (BA Wesleyan, Latin Classics; PhD Yale, Italian Language and Literature) is Professor of Italian and Latin in the Department of Foreign Languages at Towson University.  His poetry and short fiction, in Italian and English translation, has appeared in VIA: Voices in Italian America.  His scholarly work includes numerous conference papers and published articles on the Italian epic tradition, particularly Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, in journals including Italian Culture, The Italianist, and Stanford Italian Studies; his reviews have appeared in Forum Italicum and Speculum.  His translations of sixteenth-century Latin documents about the first encounter between Europe and America were published by UCLA in the Repertorium Columbianum series in 2002.  He is a frequent contributor to the Italian humanities journal Lyceum, with pieces on topics ranging from national identity to the Italian opera tradition.  He recently completed a translation of Tullia d’Aragona’s epic-romance, Il Meschino, altramente detto il Guerrino (1560); edited and annotated by Julia L. Hairston, it is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in the series, “The Other Voice.”  Dr. McLucas’ article on approaches to teaching Ariosto was published in 2016 in the journal Italica.