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Many interventions in recent decades have insisted on the 'pleasure of Latin'. The reasons for Latin asks, more radically, whether the study of this language can once again play a role in education. The proposal of this book is to consider the whole history of Latin, i.e. more than two millennia of European cultural history, without limiting itself to the couple of centuries that are defined as 'classical'. The volume presents itself as an invitation to rethink, even operationally, the language of European culture. The topics covered range from the linguistic role of Latin in the construction of modern languages, to the constant presence of Latin in the history of music, to the constitutive relationship between Latin and Christianity, to hints on the educational success of Latin at a European level. All the chapters are accompanied by numerous illustrations and examples, with an essential bibliography of references, in order to make reading easy and to allow those who wish to fully document themselves to have the necessary tools at their disposal.

In the light of the extensive research on Horace's manuscript tradition and translations or adaptations done between the 16th and the 18th century, it is now necessary to study the translations and studies devoted to him in the 19th century. The present study presents a survey of the translations of the Ars Poetica in the early 19th century. Although Romanticism diminished attunement with Horace, editorial interest in his works remains considerable, and therefore a comprehensive research seems opportune.

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A biography of the Italian scholar Francesco Della Corte (1913-1991), Professor of Latin at the University of Genoa

Biography of the Italian scholar Alberto Grilli (1920-2007), Professor at the University of Milan

Accanto a composizioni appartenenti al fondo "romano-franco", il cosiddetto "gregoriano" in quanto tale, le edizioni vaticane del Graduale pubblicano molti brani di epoca medievale e anche più recenti. Nel XIX secolo molti brani di questo tipo venivano "gregorianizzati", come ad es. il celebre "Adeste fideles". Nelle edizioni attuali restano tracce di questa pratica, ed è importante notare che un'esecuzione gregorianizzata costituisce una falsificazione storica., Along with musical compositions belonging to the Roman-Frankish chant (the so-called "Gregorian Chant" as such), the Vatican edition of the Roman Graduale publishes many pieces of Medieval and even later composition. In the 19th century many "later" items were printed as pseudo-Gregorian chant (see e.g. the well known Adeste Fideles). In the current editions, some traces of this "medievalising" practice are still detectable in the 1974 Graduale. It is important to realise that performing these pieces as if they were Gregorian Chant would be a forgery.

The texts featured by the liturgy for the feast of St Syrus in Genoa (died 381) show strata of remote origin, probably rooted in the Late Antiquity, and mediaeval sources, namely the Vita written by Jacobus de Varagine in his Legenda Aurea, and an ancient Vita.

The fragmentation of life, i.e. the inability to live one's life as a whole, is an important theme in Hellenistic ethics, as witnessed in Lucretius and Seneca. From Aristotle onwards, the task of ethics is to construct a unitary life, in which the continuity of the 'good life' is identified with the stable presence of virtue (Stoicism) or pleasure (Epicureanism). This basic problem is related to well-known topics such as the uselessness of travel or chaotic reading: a particularly important theme is the imaginary observation of one's own corpse.

A close examination of the ancient Latin etymologies shows a twofold understanding of the word rex: both «rego» and «rectus» were perceived as ‘root’ of the word, and hence a king was «the one who sets the boundaries and leads his people» and «the one who is following and showing the right path». But in the Indoeuropean languages another idea of «king» emerges in the Old English cyning (Old German kuning): the king is «the one who is the people». The Stoic idea of the wise man as a king meets the Christian doctrine of Christ as king, which in its turn receives and develops the rich Biblical and Middle Eastern cultural tradition. All of this is faithfully mirrored in the Latin liturgical tradition, where the duplicity of kingship and priesthood, and of past (Old Covenant) and present (Christianity) is absorbed in a new unity, which is possible only within an eschatological perspective.