Lucretius Poet and Philosopher. Six Hundred Years after his Rediscovery – 15-16-17/06/2017, Alghero
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 15-16-17/06/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: “Bastioni Marco Polo 77”, Department of Architecture, Design and City Planning, Santa Chiara (Alghero, Sassari, Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Valentina Prosperi (Classical Philology, University of Sassari) ; Diego Zucca (Ancient Philosophy, University of Sassari)
INFO: lucretiuscongressalghero@gmail.com ; zucca.diego@gmail.com ; prosperiv@uniss.it
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE:
Day 1: Thursday, June 15 ASILO SELLA
14.00-14.30 Welcome Coffee
14.30-15.00 Welcome Speeches Massimo Carpinelli, Rector of the University of Sassari ; Marco Milanese, Head of the Department of History and Human Sciences
Inaugural Lecture Chair: Marco Milanese, University of Sassari
15.00-15.30 David Sedley, University of Cambridge: Lucretian Pleasures
15.30-15.40 Discussion
Session I PSYCHOLOGY
Chair: Massimo Dell’Utri University of Sassari
15.40-16.10 Giulia Scalas, University of Lille 3 Claustra Vitai: Lucrezio e la psicologia del limite
16.10-16.40 Mario De Caro, Università di Roma Tre – Tufts University: Machiavelli’s Lucretian Free Will
16.40-17.00 Discussion
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
Session II PERCEPTUAL EPISTEMOLOGY
Chair: Alberto Mura University of Sassari
17.30-1800 Diego Zucca, University of Sassari: Illusion and the Infallibility of Perception
18.00-18.30 Francesca Masi, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari: Lucrezio e l’inganno onirico
18.30-19.00 Richard Stoneman,University of Exeter: Can you Believe your Eyes? Scepticism and the Evidence of the Senses in Lucretius, DRN IV. 237- 521
19.00-19.30 Discussion
20.30 Dinner
Day 2: Friday, June 16 ASILO SELLA
8.30-9.00 Welcome Coffee
Session III HUMAN LIFE IN A LUCRETIAN WORLD
Chair: Attilio Mastino, University of Sassari
9.00-9.30 Luigi Ruggiu, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari: Sul tempo in Lucrezio
9.30-10.00 Pierre-Marie,Morel Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: Amore e politica in Lucrezio 10.00-10.20 Discussion
10.20-10-30 Coffee Break
Section IV REPRESENTATIONS OF LUCRETIUS
Chair: Sebastiano Ghisu University of Sassari
10.30-11.00 Giuseppe Solaro, University of Foggia: The Legend of Lucretius
11.00-11.30 Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford: Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and Arnold
11.30-12.00 Gavina Cherchi; University of Sassari: Simulacra lucretiana. Fortuna iconografica di Lucrezio
12.00-12.30 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch
Session V THE REDISCOVERY OF THE TEXT
Chair: Guido Milanese Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano e Brescia
14.30-15.00 David Butterfield, University of Cambridge: The Inconvenience of Incompletion
15.00-15.30 Valentina Prosperi, University of Sassari: Lost in Translation: The Sixteenth Century Vernacular Lucretius
15.30-16.00 Ada Palmer, University of Chicago: The Persecution of Renaissance Lucretius Readers Revisited 16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-16.50 Coffee Break
Session VI THE REDISCOVERY OF THE TEXT II
Chair: Annamaria Piredda University of Sassari
16.50-17.20 Elena Nicoli, Radboud University Nijmegen: Atoms, Elements, Seeds: Johannes Baptista Pius’ Eclectic Interpretation of Lucretius’ Matter Theory
17.20-17.50 Mauro Sarnelli, University of Sassari: Lucrezio in Barocco (moderato): presenze e funzioni dell’auctoritas lucreziana nel “decameron” filosofico- scientifico di Giovanni Delfino
17.50-18.20 Frank La Brasca, Centre d’études supérieurs de la Renaissance [CRNS], Tours Giovanni Nardi’s Comment on De Rerum Natura
18.20-18.50 Discussion
19.00 Gaetano Marino: A Reading from De Rerum Natura (Movida Restaurant)
20.00 Dinner
Day 3: Saturday, June 17 SANTA CHIARA
Session VII SUBLIME READERS
08.30-9.00 Welcome Coffee
Chair: Antonella Bruzzone University of Sassari
09.00-9.30 Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge: Lucretius in Late Antique Poetry
09.30-10.00 Ivano Dionigi, University of Bologna: Lucrezio e Dante: la grammatica del cosmo
10.00-10.30 Myrto Garani; University of Athens: Seneca as Lucretius’ sublime reader (Naturales Quaestiones 3 praef.)
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break (Movida Restaurant)
Session VIII LUCRETIUS’ EPICUREANISM
Chair: Federico Condello University of Bologna
11.30-12.00 Francesco Verde, Sapienza Università di Roma/Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg): La meteorologia epicurea tra Lucrezio e l’Aetna pseudovirgiliano
12.00-12.30 Fabio Tutrone, University of Palermo Coming to Know Epicurus’ Truth: Lucretius’ Didactic Arguments as a Specimen of Epicurean Distributed Cognition
12.30-12.50 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch
Session IX ATOMISM AND ITS MODERN LEGACY
Chair: Valentina Prosperi University of Sassari
14.30-15.00 Andrew Laird, Brown University: Lucretius in the Spanish American Enlightenment. Atomism, Sublimity and the Dispute of the New World
15.00-15.30 Matteo Favaretti, Camposampiero University of Venice Ca’ Foscari: On the Combinatorial Nature of Things: Lucretius in Leibniz
15.30-16.00 Henk Kubbinga, University of Groningen: Lucretius and Beeckman: ‘Atoms’ and ‘Molecules’
16.00-16.30 Andrea Ceccarelli, University of Rome La Sapienza: Reading Lucretius in Padua: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli and the Sixteenth-Century Recovery of Ancient Atomism
16.30-17.10 Discussion
17.10-17.30 Coffee and Farewells at Movida Restaurant