VIII Cortona Colloquium on Latin Literature
Organization
Organizing Secretary
Organized by Scuola Normale Superiore, in collaboration with Princeton University, the workshop is funded by the PNRR through the MERITA, the network for talent project*.
The Colloquium is dedicated to the second part of the fifth book of De rerum natura, in which the poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus describes the origin of life on earth and outlines a history of primitive humanity. It is a passage of great poetic power and extraordinary theoretical interest, which anticipates — in some respects — evolutionary theories and contemporary studies on prehistoric humanity.
Participants
- Matteo Amato - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Yelena Baraz - Princeton University
- Chiara Bottari - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Chiara Caporale - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Grace De Angelis - Princeton University
- Andrew Feldherr - Princeton University
- Manuel Galzerano - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Myrto Garani - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Jay Houston - Princeton University
- Peter Kelly - Princeton University
- Victoire Lecuyer - École normale supérieure de Lyon
- Yuecheng Li - Princeton University
- Simone Marchesi - Princeton University
- Daria Molinari - Princeton University
- Matteo Moretti - Princeton University
- Luca Onorato - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Roberto Proverbio - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Helen Ruger - Princeton University
- Alessandro Schiesaro - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Francesco Senarega - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Beatrice Tonnicchi - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Thu Truong - Princeton University
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* MERITA, the network for talent project is the result of a collaboration between five Italian academic institutions: the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, the Collegio Superiore dell’Università di Bologna, the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori dell’Università di Padova and the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati della Sapienza Università di Roma.
The MERITA project is funded within the Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR), Missione 4 – Istruzione e Ricerca, Componente 1, Investimento 3.4 "Didattica e competenze universitarie avanzate"- "Rafforzamento delle Scuole universitarie superiori". (National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), Mission 4 – Education and Research, Component 1, Investment 3.4 "Advanced university teaching and competences" - "Enhancement of the institutions for higher education").
Image: Piero di Cosimo, 1490 ca., Vulcan and Aeolus; temper and oil on canvas; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada - CC Wikimedia Commons