The Committee for Teaching Neo-Latin of the "International Association of Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS)" (Prof. Dr. Claudia Schindler, Hamburg, and dr. Christoph Pieper, Leiden) in cooperation with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) (dr. Susanna de Beer) will organize a spring school at the KNIR from 3-11 May 2024. Its title is "Neo-Latin Literature in and about Rome", and it is open to (Res)MA and PhD students. The deadline for applying is January, 6th, 2024.
On the one hand the spring school will give a general introduction in the studying of the field of Neo-Latin for students who have few or no experience with it so far. On the other hand, it will explore the field by focusing on Roman humanism and the city of Rome and its representation in Neo-Latin literature. On the basis of case studies, participants will get to know specimens of Rome’s attractiveness for Neo-Latin writers. The KNIR will be the site of the lectures and library research, but our main venue will be Rome itself. During the course we will visit a variety of sites in (and outside of) Rome (planned i.a.: Biblioteca Vaticana, Vatican Museums, Capitoline Museums, the ancient Forum, the Pantheon, and many more) and relate the places to written sources and literary texts many different sources (poems, historiography, descriptions of the city, letters) in order to understand the impact of the city on the learned Latin debates and literature of early modern Europe.
