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Plinius der Jüngere (61/62-113 n. Chr.) verlieh als senatorischer homo novus durch die Epistulae, den Panegyricus sowie einige Inschriften seiner aristokratischen Existenz dauerhaften Ausdruck. Diese literarischen und epigraphischen... more
Travel and mobility were characteristic of the privileged few in the world of Late Antiquity. Therefore, they should be interpreted as status symbols. Although basic education was by-and-large accessible, undertaking long-distance travel... more
Abstract: Cicero’s Hortensius, undoubtedly the most famous exhortation to philosophy from the whole of Latin literature, has survived only in fragmentary form, as quotations or paraphrases in the works of different writers of Antiquity,... more
Comparisons of Montaigne’s Essays and Shakespeare’s Hamlet tend to focus on Montaigne’s skepticism, as laid out in his longest and best-known essay, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond.” Hamlet’s doubts resemble Montaigne’s, and critics have... more
The aim of this essay is to illustrate how the architecture of the imperial otium villas reflects the change in the concept of imperial power which occurred during the second half of the first century CE. In order to do so, we have to... more
This article focuses on the text of Seneca’s ad Polybium 17.4, in particular on tesseris ac foro, which lies immediately before a text suspected of being corrupt and published by Reynolds between cruces: this expression is commonly... more
Quel est le rôle du philosophe dans la cité ? Comment celui que l’on appellerait aujourd’hui « l’intellectuel » remplit-il au mieux ses devoirs d’homme et de citoyen ? Est-ce en choisissant l’action, notamment politique, dans la sphère... more
Pliny the Younger was, as well as most other members of the aristocracy of the early and high Roman Empire, a very politically active figure. This political existence was expressed through literary communication, which was, however, no... more
En el presente artículo hago un análisis del concepto de otium en el tratado De otio religioso de Francesco Petrarca, y la influencia que la lectura y elaboración de los textos de Agustín ha tenido en la conformación de dicho concepto.... more
If compared to the Etruscan Farm (6<sup>th </sup>- 5<sup>th</sup> cent. BC) along the river Alma, which is an emblematic case of political and cultural dominance of Vetulonia throughout the entire existence of a... more
The Via Appia is one of the most important road axes mentioned both in ancient sources and in recent literature. However, there are still problems on the identification of some sections, especially in the area East of the city of... more
Σε αυτήν τη διάλεξη προσπαθούμε να αναλύσουμε την πολιτική σημασία του "otium" στον Κικέρωνα. Η έννοια αυτή εμπεριέχει μια μείζονα αντίφαση, καθώς παραπέμπει στην απραγμοσύνη, η οποία ανάλογα με τα συμφραζόμενα μπορεί να είναι αγαθό ή... more
If compared to the Etruscan Farm (VI - V century BC) along the river Alma, which is an emblematic case of political and cultural dominance of Vetulonia throughout the entire existence of a settlement, the case of the Villa of Nomadelfia... more
The article examines the letter of Cicero to Memmius (Ad fam. XIII, 1) from the Roman point of view on Greek philosophy. Is it possible for a Roman to seriously assert membership in Epicureanism? How should we understand the fact that... more
The Via Appia is one of the most important road axes mentioned both in ancient sources and in recent literature. However, there are still problems on the identification of some sections, especially in the area East of the city of... more
Algunos autores denuncian la pérdida de la noción de “otium”. Noción que hacía referencia al modo en que se debía dar el acceso a los libros en la primera juventud. En este trabajo se repasa el pensamiento que Marc Fumaroli y Michel Crepu... more
For the orphic believer death is only a necessary passage to a better afterlife. For this reason the moment of the burial could have been an important moment in the life of the initiate. In this work the author tries to analyze if the... more
In Rome, knowledge did not confer any auctoritas, contrary to what happened in France with primary-school teachers during the Third Republic for instance. Therefore, in a society based on an ideal of uirtus and industria, the making of... more
The case study described in this paper, that is, the Roman small villa rustica of San Giovanni in the Gulf of Portoferraio (Elba Island, Tuscany), represents a local declination of the type of buildings commonly defined as 'Cato's... more
Although few Roman villas have been sufficiently excavated to restitute their overall plan, the various examples today more or less known in Italy reflect a large diversity of planimetries. However, some of the best known examples... more
Negli studi sui rapporti tra umanesimo e minoritismo il topos della renovatio è stato indubbiamente uno degli aspetti più battuti, a partire dalle celebri opere di Henry Thode e Konrad Burdach. Dopo una breve riflessione sulla... more
Naples est une ville « grecque », mais ce caractère « grec » est en partie l’effet d’une construction d’époque romaine. L’analyse de quelques textes littéraires de la fin de la République et du début de l’Empire permet de comprendre le... more
'Otium' is used in Latin Literature, but only Seneca the Younger in the AD 1st considers it in a philosophical way. This paper aims to approach the meaning of 'otium' and to attempt a definition through five poems of Catullus. The Carmina... more
This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar... more
In my third and final lecture, I [Bernard Stiegler] consider the conflict opposing Denis Diderot to Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières, Count de Caylus, on the faculty of judging works. The contemporary critic Jean-Louis Jam has called this... more
En el Speculum doctrinale, segunda parte de las tres que componen el Speculum maius, Vicente de Beauvais, siguiendo la teoría de la restauración, expone las ciencias y las artes entregadas al hombre para luchar contra los efectos del... more
Séminaire de recherche "Muße. Konzepte, Räume, Figuren", dirigé par Bernhard Zimmermann; présentation le 12 mai 2015 à l'Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.