The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies has received an award of €15,000 (nearly $23,000 CAD) from the Italian government in recognition of its work in publishing English-language translations of seminal texts from the early Italian Renaissance, including Della Casa's Galateo, two treatises by Valla, Ochino's Dialogues, four early versions of the Romeo and Juliet story, and a collection of sermons by Savonarola.
The Workshop on Language and Publishing, a branch of the National Committee for the Promotion of Italian Culture Abroad, made the award on the recommendation of the Toronto office of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. The translations were published in the CRRS series Texts in Translation. Designed for classroom use, they have been studied by numerous undergraduate students in the Victoria College Renaissance Studies program. The translators include three faculty members from Victoria College: Professor Kenneth Bartlett, Professor Konrad Eisenbichler, and Professor Olga Zorzi Pugliese. The award was given to encourage and to honour the editorial activity of this series.
“Saints, Sexual Deviants or Ciphers? Sixteenth-Century Lives of Continental Reformers ”
We are delighted to announce that the Forty-First Annual Erasmus Lecture will be given by Professor Irena Backus of l'Institut d'Histoire de la Réformation de l'Université de Genève. Her latest book, Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378- 1615), revises existing preconceptions about Reformation historiography by comparing the types of historical documents produced by Calvinist, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic circles.Thursday 6 October 2005 at 4:00 p.m.
Alumni Hall, Victoria College (93 Charles
Street West)
BONNUS, Hermann. Farrago praecipuorum exemplorum, de Apostolis, Martyribus, Episcopis, & Sanctis Patribus veteris Ecclesiae. Halle: [Peter Braubach], 1539.
Bound with:GLAREANUS, Henricus. Liber ecclesiasticorum carminum, cum aliis Hymnis & Prosis exquisitissimis. Basel: Bartholomaeus Westheimer, 1538.
BR1710 .B6 1539Hermann Bonnus (1504-1548) was a German Reformer who studied at Wittenberg
under Luther and Melanchthon, both of whom corresponded with him. His writings
were placed on the Index in 1559. Henricus Loritus Glareanus (1488-1563)
was a Swiss poet, humanist, and polymath, and a friend of both Zwingli and
Erasmus, who considered him to be the most important of the Swiss humanists.
The text, a collection of Latin hymns, is preceded by his short tract on
meters and prosody, Libellus de ratione carminum, and the volume
also includes a preface by the printer Bartolomaeus Westheimer (1499-1577).
Both texts appear in their first edition in this volume and were on the
Index.
Both are very rare; the Glareanus is apparently the only original
copy of this text in North America. This book is also of interest because
it contains an early sixteenth-century woodcut bookplate, (shown here) identifying
an early owner as Heinrich Kurz, a native of Regensburg, Bishop of Chrysopolis
and Suffragan Bishop of Passau.
WIMPHELING, Jakob. De Integritate libellus cum epistolis pr[a]estantissimoru[m] viroru[m] hunc libellum approbantium & confirmantium ... Straßburg: Joannes Knobloch, 1506.
Jakob Wimpheling (1450-1528)
was a late medieval scholar who called for educational reform and attacked
moral abuses, especially of the clergy. Educated at Freiburg, Erfurt, and
Heidelberg, he began his reform efforts at Schlettstadt in Alsace.
"De Integritate" is a letter to Jakob Sturm (1489-1553), whom Wimpheling had educated for a
clerical career. Wimpheling identifies the dangers that threaten to lure a
man from a chaste life, most of which are posed by women, whether wives, widows,
virgins or prostitutes. (His stern warning against consorting with prostitutes
is underscored by a graphic description of the symptoms of syphilis.) Two
classic misogynist texts are also included: an alphabetical list attributed
to St. Anthony, of negative feminine qualities, and Baptista Mantuanus's scathing
fourth eclogue.
The text also sheds light on specific aspects of Wimpheling's
thoughts on church reform. In the final chapters, Wimpheling argues that St.
Augustine was never a monk. He also protests the benefices and the immorality
of the clergy and argues that it is not necessary to become a monk to lead
a good Christian life. This caused a great deal of controversy; he was twice
summoned to Rome and he soon found it necessary to issue a defense of his
position.
Our copy is the second edition (the first, 1505) and shows signs
of early ownership by the monastery of St. Zeno at Islen.
This workshop will explore the problems of transcribing, translating, and annotating mss for the Capito Project, a three volume edition of the correspondence of the Strasbourg reformer Wolfgang Capito. Participants will include representatives from ongoing editions of Erasmus, Beatus Rhenanus, Bucer, Bullinger, and Beza. The keynote speaker will be Thomas Brady (Berkeley). For more information, please contact the organizer, Professor Erika Rummel
April 2005
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Papa, Ave Papabile: The Sacchetti Family, their Art Patronage, and Political
Aspirations. Essays and Studies, 6. ISBN 0-7727-2028-2. $35 CAD
/ $28 US
May 2005
Richard Hillman (trans.) The
Tragic History of La Pucelle of Domrémy, Otherwise Known as The Maid of
Orléans. Dovehouse, Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation,
39. ISBN 1-895537-76-2. $15 CAD / $12 US
July 2005
Siena, Kevin (ed.) Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe. Essays and Studies, 7. ISBN 0-7727-2029-0.
August 2005
Connell, William and Giles Constable. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of
Antonio Rinaldeschi. Essays and Studies, 8. ISBN 0-7727-2030-4.
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