In collaboration with the McGill University, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Italian Studies, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Montréal presents: La “scoperta” della Tarda Antichita,’ by professor Claudio Moreschini.
October 5, 2017; 6pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
1200 Dr. Penfield
Free Admission – Conference in Italian
From the 1970s, philological and philosophical research has been increasingly devoted to the period commonly called ‘late-ancient’, so that in 1999 an Italian scholar, Andrea Giardina, spoke of a ‘late antique explosion’. The chronological extension of this period has been understood differently: it is somewhat agreed that the beginning dates back to the second century AD, but the end is considered to be the 6th century (after the ‘noisy fall’ of the Roman Empire) by some, or the Carolingian age, by others. Similarly, the geographic extent is discussed: scholars more sensitive to the problems of that period have found too narrow the differentiation by geographical and cultural areas (Latin West and Greek East – more recently, even the Persian and Muslim Orient) or by religious areas (‘paganism’ vs. Christianity). We will try to quickly reconsider the issues of the matter.
Claudio Moreschini, professor emeritus at the University of Pisa, is an Italian expert in Classical Philology, Platonism and Patristics, with a focus on Late Antiquity and Renaissance Humanism. After initial studies at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the same city, Moreschini studied at Oxford, notably with E.R.Dodds and Eduard Fraenkel. Among his numerous publications on Apuleius, Gregory of Nazianzus and Boethius, Moreschini has authored two monographs on Hermetism, and more specifically Hermes Christianus: the Intermingling of Hermetic Piety and Christian Thought (2011) and Storia dell’Ermetismo Cristiano (2000).
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