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Anne Andenmatten, Kevin Bovier, Josias Simler, Vallesiae Descriptio - Description du Valais. Introduction, traduction et notes, Bâle, 2025.

Éditeur : Schwabe Verlag
Collection : Sapheneia
367 pages
ISBN : 978-3-7965-5331-8
68 euros (le PDF peut aussi être gratuitement téléchargé sur schwabeonline.ch: https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-5334-9)

En 1574, l'humaniste zurichois Josias Simler (1530-1576) publie la première œuvre en latin spécifiquement consacrée à la géographie et à l'histoire du Valais : la Vallesiae Descriptio. Dédiée à l'évêque de Sion Hildebrand de Riedmatten, cette Description du Valais se voulait le prélude à un ouvrage plus vaste sur la Suisse, resté inachevé. La présente édition, accompagnée d'une traduction et de notes explicatives, vise à faire découvrir ce texte humaniste aux spécialistes ainsi qu'au public curieux de savoir à quoi ressemble le Valais du XVIe siècle et comment il est perçu en Suisse à cette époque. L'introduction présente la vie de l'auteur et tous les aspects de cette œuvre pionnière sur le Valais.

Source : Schwabe Verlag

David Hernández de la Fuente et Nuria Vallina (éd.), Enemigo a las puertas. Encuentros hostiles en Grecia y Roma, Madrid, 2025.

Éditeur : Guillermo Escolar Editor
Collection : Estudios clásicos, 7
276 pages
ISBN : 978-84-19782-91-5
22 €

La idea de que hay un enemigo a las puertas de la ciudad, preparándose ahí fuera para el asedio y el triunfo sobre los de dentro, armándose, tramando, conspirando, no es de hoy: es al menos tan antigua como el hilo conductor que engarza la trama narrativa de la épica homérica.
Tampoco es nuevo, sin duda, el uso asimétrico de los conceptos con que se representa al enemigo acechante. Sin embargo, lo decisivo de estos es que la facultad de definir se la arroga en exclusiva quien establece la dicotomía, el griego respecto del bárbaro, el cristiano respecto del pagano, convertidos el bárbaro, el pagano –y un largo etcétera que se reformula hasta hoy mismo– en meros pacientes de las palabras de otros.

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Sorpresi dalla storia. Percorsi intorno al Medioevo. Conversazione con Pietro Silanos, Florence, 2025.

Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo
Collection : mediEVI, 45
ISBN : 978-88-9290-403-3
38 €

Un dialogo appassionato tra due storici di generazioni diverse che ripercorre mezzo secolo di medievistica europea, attraverso l'esperienza intellettuale e umana di Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. La conversazione con Pietro Silanos guida il lettore in un viaggio che intreccia memoria e riflessione intorno a temi che hanno segnato la ricerca internazionale degli ultimi decenni e restituisce la ricchezza di un metodo di ricerca sviluppato in biblioteche di tutta l'Europa, in aule universitarie e sedi congressuali. Emerge il profilo di uno studioso “sorpreso dalla storia” di un Medioevo fatto di luci e ombre: dalla scoperta della curia papale e della sua cultura simbolica alla storia della natura e delle scienze medievali. Una sorpresa capace di innovare temi e strumenti interpretativi. Un libro che parla a chi ama la storia e vuole cogliere il valore del mestiere dello storico. Lasciarsi sorprendere dalla storia è il primo passo per comprenderla davvero.

Source : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

Vasileios Pappas, Non-Elegiac Latin Love Poetry of Late Antiquity, Berlin-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 427
VIII-282 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-170986-4
99,95 €

For about five hundred years – between Ovid's death (17 AD) and Maximianus' Elegies (6th century AD) – the genre of love elegy disappears. Does this mean that love poetry in general was no longer being written? This was certainly not the case. Poets continued to compose love poetry, merely in other forms than elegy. This book deals with non-elegiac Latin love poetry of Late Antiquity. It is the first monograph to focus on the metaliterary interpretation of four non-elegiac poetic works: the Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonius' Bissula, Reposianus' De concubitu Martis et Veneris, and the Aegritudo Perdicae. The book contains all the required information about these poems (including their date, authorship, structure, and literary tradition). However, its content is predominantly original, as it examines subjects that have not previously been discussed in the past. These include: a) the generic interaction between the poems' ‘host' genre and several ‘guest' genres that are present within them; b) the metaliterary discourse developed in several passages, which reveals the metapoetic self-consciousness of their poets; c) their hidden demands for the innovation of love poetry; and d) their allusive comments on the conservatism of this era.

Source : De Gruyter

Éloïse Adde et Jonathan Dumont (éd.), Naturalisation of Power (1250-1600): Unravelling the Strategies of Legitimation, Florence, 2025.

Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo
Collection : Micrologus Library, 127
IX-330 pages
ISBN : 978-88-9290-363-0
68 €

Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. É. Adde - J. Dumont, Nature, Legitimacy and Power. A preliminary Approach. THINKING NATURE IN THE SOCIAL WORLD. M. van der Lugt - Naturalising the Law - Legalising Nature. The Role of Medical Analogies and Arguments in Medieval Discussions about Consanguinity, Incest and Kin Marriage – J. Le Mauff, Political Naturalism and Communitarian Values. The corpus reipublicae and its Meaning in the Twelfth Century – A. Destemberg, Création divine et naturalisation de l'ordre social aux XIIIe-XVe siècles. L'exégèse visuelle et textuelle de la Genèse dans les Bibles moralisées – N. Hochner, Incommensurability and the Kinetic Nature of Society – L. Jollivet, La légitimation du pouvoir en période de crise. Le cercle de Nicolas de Clamanges et les prémices de la notion de ‘mérite', 1380 -1430.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, 900 Conclusions. Edited and translated with a commentary by Brian P. Copenhaver, Cambridge, MA, 2025.

Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Collection : The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 100
lxv-611 pages
ISBN : 978-0-6742-9891-0
31,95 €

A groundbreaking edition of controversial theses proposed by the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, had ambitions in line with his talents, especially in philosophical theology. His boldest venture urged Christians to save their souls with Jewish mysticism—Kabbalah—while also offering to debate anyone in Italy about his project. In 1486, he announced plans for a disputation in Rome on 900 theses, but Pope Innocent VIII quashed the event with an indictment for crimes against Christian orthodoxy.