LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MASTER) 2015-16

Epigraphy, power, society: the Senatus consultum de Cnaeo Piso patre

The discovery in 1990 in southern Spain (Betica) of the bronze tablet on which was engraved the senatusconsultum containing the full text of the judgment of the trial against the legacy of Syria Cn. Calpurnius Piso allows you to re-read one of the most dramatic events in the history of the High Empire. Around the sudden death of Germanicus Caesar, in 19 AD, we see looming tensions in the Julio-Claudian house, the fluidity of the new Augustan regime, the eminent role of the Senate, the importance of the loyalty of the legions, the obsession of the Roman people for this deceased prince, but also the harmony between Piso and his wife Plancina. A great fresco of a changing society.

▪ Discipline: Latin epigraphy - SSD: L-ANT / 03.
▪ Study course: LETTERS (DM 270) Master of Science.
▪ Type: BASIC.
▪ Total credits: 6 = 36 teaching hours.
▪ Objectives: analysis and knowledge of the epigraph of Senatus consultum de Cn. Piso patre and its historical context.
▪ Teaching methods: lessons in the classroom.
▪ Teaching language: Italian (it is possible to arrange programs in English, French and German).
▪ Type of examination and evaluation: oral examination with final grade.
▪ SEMESTER: FIRST (November 2015 - January 2016).
▪ START CLASSES: Monday, November 16, 2015.
▪ TIME CLASSES: Mondays and Wednesdays, 14: 00-16: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department; Friday, 09: 00-11: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department.
▪ Prerequisites: requires knowledge of Latin, Roman history, also in conjunction with its course, and a frequency not occasional.
▪ Exam session: vd. calendar on the bulletin board and online.
▪ Receipt of lecturer: Wednesday at 9: 00-12: 00 (or by appointment to be fixed by mail - see. Below).
▪ Delivery of lecturer: pierfrancesco.porena@uniroma3.it.

LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MAGISTRAL)

▪ TEXTS of reference for attending students: xerocopies provided by the teacher in class.

▪ TEXTS of reference for non-attending students: they must agree on a program with the teacher.

The course takes into consideration those conceptions that examined religiosity during the eve of the XX century and the technique development.

G. Simmel, Tecnica e modernità nella Germania di fine Ottocento (1902) e Le Metropoli e la vita dello spirito (1903), Armando
Rudolf Otto, Il sacro (1917), SE
M. Heidegger, Lo sguardo in ciò che è (1949), in Le conferenze di Brema e Friburgo, Adelphi, pp. 19-108
M. Heidegger, La sentenza di Nietzsche “Dio è morto” (1953), in Id. Sentieri interrotti
M. Heidegger, L’abbandono (1955), il melangolo

Virtue and happiness: Aristotle and Bernard de Mandeville
A: Anaylisis of Aristotelian ethics. True happiness is possible only through a continuos practice of virtue
B: Private vices and public virtus. The conflict between reason and passion in Bernard de Mandeville

A: Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Vegetti L'etica degli antichi
B: Bernard de Mandeville, La favola delle api. A. Branchi, Introduzione a Bernard de Mandeville

The course aims to address the reading and the comment of Immanuel Kant’s "Critique of judgment", with a focus on the first part ("Critique of the aesthetic judgment. ")

I. Kant, Critica della facoltà di giudizio, a cura di E. Garroni e H. Hohenegger, Einaudi, Torino 1999, pp. XI-LXXXXI e 3-192
E. Garroni, Estetica ed epistemologia. Riflessioni sulla “Critica del Giudizio”, Bulzoni, Roma 1976; nuova ed. Unicopli 1998.

UNIT 1 – 36 HOURS - 6 CFU
Basic definitions, especially with regard to the concepts of space and territory, the processes of territorialization and its effects, the basis of the concept of limit/boundary and its applications. Main disciplinary and transdisciplinary methods of investigation used in geographical research.

UNIT 2 - 36 HOURS - 6 CFU
Geographical discourse and cartographic language. Partitive and comparative logic; representation and complexity in contemporary geography; geographical taxonomies and landscape between continuous and discrete. geography in humanities. The social construction of the space, spatial justice/injustice, societal competition in the space.

Unit 1:

1) - C. CERRETI, I. DUMONT, M. TABUSI (a cura di), Geografia sociale e democrazia. La sfida della comunicazione, Roma, Aracne, 2012
or:
1) A. BIANCHETTI e A. GUARAN, Sguardi sul mondo. Letture di geografia sociale, Bologna, Pàtron, 2014

2) I. DUMONT (a cura di), Per una geografia sociale. Proposte da un confronto italo-francese, fascicolo monografico del «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», 2009, 1


Unit 2:

1) L. CALANDRA (a cura di), Territorio e democrazia. Un laboratorio di geografia sociale nel doposisma aquilano, L’Aquila, L’Una, 2012
or:
1) M. PICONE e F. SCHILLECI, Quartiere e identità. Per una rilettura del decentramento a Palermo, Firenze, Alinea, 2012

2) R. BORGHI e M. SCHMIDT DI FRIEDBERG (a cura di), Lo spazio della differenza, fascicolo monografico del «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», 2011, 1
or:
2) U. ROSSI e A. VANOLO, Geografia politica urbana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.

Referring to the Arendt's problems on the judgement and responsibility, the cours aims to recover the sense of morality, that is ability to discern right from wrong.

I. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: relations between canon law, theology, morality and history.

II. FOUNDATION AND HISTORICITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM

III. THEORY OF SOURCES OF CANON LAW

IV. THE REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH

V. THE TYPICALITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE NORM

VI. THE CHURCH AS INSTITUTION, GOD’S PEOPLE, SOCIETY

VII. ACTIVITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

For attending students only: The examination will focus only on lesson notes and handouts provided by the Professor.

For students who do not attend classes: C. Cardia, La Chiesa tra storia e diritto, Giappichelli, 2010, pp. 1-252, 293-361.

Will be considered as attending only the students who have attended the 2/3 of classes and seminars.


FOR MORE INFORMATIONS, REFER TO THE FACULTY WEBSITE WHERE THERE IS THE PAGE RESERVED TO PROFESSOR’S DIDACTIS.

Title of the course: Developments of monasticism in the early Middle Ages: the monastic writings of Isidore of Seville.

Description: First of all, the course aims to describe, in outline, origins and types of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of the religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the vocabulary and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum of Isidore of Seville, a text so far little studied, but due to one of the greatest authorities of medieval culture. - As part of the module will also be activated exercises designed to guide the knowledge and use of the main electronic resources for the study and research on the Latin authors of the Middle Ages.

Bibliography:
- Isidorus Hispalensis, Regula monachorum, ed. J. Campos Ruiz, Santos Padres españoles, II : San
Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda. Los tres libros de las
‘Sentencias’, Madrid 1971 (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, vol. 321), pp. 90-124.
- A. de Vogüé, Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l’antiquité, Tome XI. Première partie: Le
monachisme latin. La Gaule franque et l’Espagne wisigothique (VI-VII siècle), Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris
2007, pp. 105-165.
- M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia. Aspetti istituzionali strutturali e
materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas N.S. 2015 [in corso di stampa].
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De
natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia
Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission 11 (2004) 205-263; in part. pp. 227-244.
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
Optional readings:
- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. Leclercq, Cultura umanistica e desiderio di Dio. Studio sulla letteratura monastica del Medioevo, trad.it.,
Ed. Sansoni, Firenze 2002.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.

Pre-requiments or conditions
Students are strongly encouraged to take the exam of History of Byzantine art.

Course title and contents
Roma and Lazio in the 13th century between Byzantine trends and Gothic culture.
The module will deal with painting in Rome of the 13th century, marked by the presence of craftsmen from Monreale and Venice (12th-13th century), continuing with episodes such as the composite and complex pictorial workshops of the cathedral of Anagni and the Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome, up to the apex around the end of the century, just before the appearance of the Roman painters Torriti and Cavallini.
Visits to the main pictorial cycles will be planned as part of the course.

Bibliography
Attending students
• M. Andaloro, Il mosaico con la testa di S. Pietro…; Ead.,“A dexteris eius beatissima deipara Virgo”…; F. Gandolfo, Il ritratto di Gregorio IX dal mosaico di facciata di S. Pietro in Vaticano, in Fragmenta Picta. Affreschi e mosaici staccati del Medioevo romano, catalogo della mostra, Roma 1989, pp.111-118, fig.1 p. 65; pp.139-140; 131-134, fig.5 p. 68.
• A. Iacobini, Il mosaico in Italia dall’XI all’inizio del XIII secolo: spazio, immagini, ideologia, in L’arte medievale nel contesto. 300-1300. Funzioni, iconografia, tecniche, a cura di P. Piva, Jaca Book, Milano, 2006, pp. 463-499.
• Idem, Roma anno 1200: pittura e mosaico al tempo della IV Crociata, in Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte, 28, 2004 (2005), pp. 33-62.
• Idem, La pittura e le arti suntuarie da Innocenzo III a Innocenzo IV (1198-1254), in Roma nel Duecento. L’arte nella città dei papi da Innocenzo III a Bonifacio VIII, a cura di A. M. Romanini, Seat Edizioni, Torino 1991, pp. 239-290.
• E. Parlato, S. Romano, Roma e il Lazio. Il Romanico, Jaca Book, Milano, 2001, I SS. Quattro Coronati, pp. 126-131; Il Sacro Speco e Santa Scolastica a Subiaco, pp. 233-239; La cattedrale di Anagni, pp. 240-255.
• G. Matthiae, Pittura romana del Medioevo. Secoli XI-XV. Aggiornamento scientifico di
F. Gandolfo, v. II, Fratelli Palombi Editori, Roma 1988: Matthiae, pp. 111-115 (S. Speco,
Subiaco), pp. 121-134 (cripta di Anagni), pp. 135-144 (Cappella di S. Silvestro ai SS.
Quattro Coronati); Aggiornamento pp. 283-285 (S. Speco, Subiaco), pp. 291-298 (cripta
di Anagni), 300-302 (Cappella di S. Silvestro ai SS. Quattro Coronati).
• C. Frugoni, Alcune considerazioni in margine agli affreschi; A. Tomei, Gli affreschi: una lettura, in Un universo di simboli. Gli affreschi della cripta della cattedrale di Anagni, a cura di G. Giammaria, Viella, Roma 2001, pp. 1-8; pp. 39-45; inoltre tavv. 1-61.
• L. Barelli, Il complesso monumentale dei Ss. Quattro Coronati a Roma, Viella, Roma 2009, parti scelte.
• A. Draghi, Il complesso dei Santi Quattro Coronati. L’Aula gotica, La decorazione della
Cappella di S. Silvestro; K. Queijo, I fregi nel sottarco del portico…, in S. Romano, Il
Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca., Corpus v. V, Jaca Book, Milano 2012, pp.
136-208; pp. 209-215.
• M. Nimmo, C. Olivetti, “Sulle tecniche di trasposizione dell’immagine in epoca medievale”, in “Rivista dell’Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte”, s. III, 8-9, 1985-1986 (1986), pp. 399-341.
• Further references will be provided throughout the course.

To visualize the mural paintings in their contexts, is seen besides:
• M. Andaloro, Atlante. Percorsi visivi, Milano-Roma 2006: San Pietro; San Paolo f.l.m..

Non-attending students
Must add to the above texts:
• Un universo di simboli. Gli affreschi della cripta della cattedrale di Anagni, a cura di G. Giammaria, Viella, Roma 2001.
• M. Andaloro, S. Romano, Arte e iconografia a Roma. Da Costantino a Cola di Rienzo, Iaca Book, Roma 2000.

“Ex-509” students
The programme for “ex 509” students, equal to 4 CF, is as follows:
• M. Andaloro, Il mosaico con la testa di S. Pietro…; Ead.,“A dexteris eius beatissima deipara Virgo”…; F. Gandolfo, Il ritratto di Gregorio IX dal mosaico di facciata di S. Pietro in Vaticano, in Fragmenta Picta. Affreschi e mosaici staccati del Medioevo romano, catalogo della mostra, Roma 1989, pp.111-118, fig.1 p. 65; pp.139-140; 131-134, fig.5 p. 68.
• A. Iacobini, Roma anno 1200: pittura e mosaico al tempo della IV Crociata, in Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte, 28, 2004 (2005), pp. 33-62.
• E. Parlato, S. Romano, Roma e il Lazio. Il Romanico, Jaca Book, Milano, 2001, I SS. Quattro Coronati, pp. 126-131; Il Sacro Speco e Santa Scolastica a Subiaco, pp. 233-239; La cattedrale di Anagni, pp. 240-255.
• G. Matthiae, Pittura romana del Medioevo. Secoli XI-XV. Aggiornamento scientifico di
F. Gandolfo, v. II, Fratelli Palombi Editori, Roma 1988: Matthiae, pp. 111-115 (S. Speco,
Subiaco), pp. 121-134 (cripta di Anagni), pp. 135-144 (Cappella di S. Silvestro ai SS.
Quattro Coronati); Aggiornamento pp. 283-285 (S. Speco, Subiaco), pp. 291-298 (cripta
di Anagni), 300-302 (Cappella di S. Silvestro ai SS. Quattro Coronati).
• A. Tomei, Gli affreschi: una lettura, in Un universo di simboli. Gli affreschi della cripta della cattedrale di Anagni, a cura di G. Giammaria, Viella, Roma 2001, pp. 39-45; inoltre tavv. 1-61.
• L. Barelli, Il complesso monumentale dei Ss. Quattro Coronati a Roma, Viella, Roma 2009, parti scelte.
• A. Draghi, Il complesso dei Santi Quattro Coronati. L’Aula gotica, La decorazione della
Cappella di S. Silvestro, in S. Romano, Il Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca.,
Corpus v. V, Jaca Book, Milano 2012, pp. 136-208.
• M. Nimmo, C. Olivetti, “Sulle tecniche di trasposizione dell’immagine in epoca medievale”, in “Rivista dell’Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte”, s. III, 8-9, 1985-1986 (1986), pp. 399-341.
• Further references will be provided throughout the course.

Attending, non-attending and “ex 509” students:
They are expected to have direct knowledge of the following monuments:
• Basilica di San Paolo f.lm., Roma;
• Sacro Speco di Subiaco (RM);
• Cattedrale di Anagni (FR);
• Complesso dei Santi Quattro Coronati, Roma.

Attendance
Attendance to the course is highly recommended. Those who are unable to attend the lectures due to serious circumstances, should supplement the programme (see above) with additional readings to be agreed with the teacher.


N.B. Apart from whole books, which can be either found at public libraries or bought, any other materials will be available as photocopy or PDF at:
a) c/o Mr Fulvio Pagano, Laboratorio Informatico, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Via Ostiense 234, Roma;
b) Biblioteca delle Arti, Piazza della Repubblica 10, Roma.

Constantinople, May 29, 1453: fall or conquest? The "clash of civilizations" that sealed the beginning of the modern era in the testimony of the sources.
Course description
There are days that can change history, dates that become a symbol, a hologram, a mantra. Think of the initials Nine Eleven, on 11 September 2002, of the fall of the Twin Towers, which gave the 21st century the seal of what is called a "clash of civilizations". Or even less chilling, but equally symbolic dates, such as those to which the birth of the modern age is usually referred: 1492, when the discovery of America projected the Europeans far from the area of irradiation of the former Roman and later Byzantine empire, that is, of what Fernand Braudel called the Greater Mediterranean, the trade routes that for centuries had fought against Genoa and Venice; or 1517, when Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the portal of the church of the castle of Wittemberg. These two events are closely linked to a third party: indeed, they could be considered epiphenomena. If we wanted to indicate the date that really marks the beginning of the modern age, because it is also the cause of the other two, because it changed course to the Mediterranean trade, because it freed papacy from an antagonist – orthodoxy - and left space to the Protestant Reformation, and for a thousand other reasons, we should mention another date: that of May 29, 1453, the day of the fall - or conquest, depending on the point of view with which we want to look at it - of the Byzantine Empire, that is, ultimately, the Roman Empire. Through the reading and exegesis of the sources of both sides in the field, namely not only the Byzantine and Western, but also the Islamic ones, and in particular the Ottoman chroniclers of the court of Mehmet II, and through the analysis of facts and phenomena that preceded and determined on the one hand the Ottoman expansion towards the Mediterranean, on the other the growing isolation of the millennial "Roman" empire of Byzantium with respect to the new European powers, the course aims to induce students to develop an independent opinion, historical, methodologically founded and critically articulated, on this epochal event, which changed the history of two civilizations and which violently and powerfully inserted Islam into our European history: an event that has also acquired a new topicality in the contemporary geopolitical framework, and that is often evoked by the media, but in an almost always inexact manner, influenced by prejudice and ideological conditioning as well as, more simply, by the superficiality with which our Western historiography - almost always deprived of the tools available today of the young Byzantine discipline - wanted to simplify and disseminate it.

Bibliography
A) Mandatory texts

- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976

B) Additional (optional) texts

- G. Ostrogorsky, Storia dell’impero bizantino, Einaudi Tascabili 2005
- A. Pertusi, Testi inediti e poco noti sulla caduta di Costantinopoli. Edizione postuma a c. di A. Carile,
Pàtron, Bologna 1983
- A. Pertusi, Fine di Bisanzio e fine del mondo. Significato e ruolo storico delle profezie sulla caduta di
Costantinopoli in Oriente e in Occidente. Edizione postuma a c. di E. Morini, Istituto Storico Italiano per il
Medio Evo, Roma 1988
- S. Runciman, Gli ultimi giorni di Costantinopoli (trad. it.), Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 1997
- I. Djuric, Il crepuscolo di Bisanzio (1392-1448) (trad. it.), Donzelli, Roma 1989
- F. Babinger, Maometto il Conquistatore, Einaudi, Torino 1970
- N. Gürsel, Il romanzo del Conquistatore, Pironti, Napoli 1997

C) Texts in foreign languages

- E. Pears, The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the
Turks, London 1903
- G. Schlumberger, Le siège de Constantinople en 1453, Plon, Paris 1922
- G. Walter, La ruine de Byzance (1204-1453), Albin Michel, Paris 1958
- D.M. Nicol, The End of the Byzantine Empire, Edward Arnold Publishers, London 1979
- D.M. Nicol, The Immortal Emperor. The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos Last Emperor of the
Romans, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- R. Crowley, 1453. The Holy War for Constantinople and the Crash of Islam and the West, Hyperion, New
York 2005;
- C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650. The Structure of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2002

Pre-requisites and conditions
Students are strongly encouraged to take the exam of History of Medieval art.

Course title and contents
a) History of Byzantine art (4th-9th century): outlines.
b) The icon: from its Byzantine origins to the Russian avant-garde.
The course consists of two parts.
a) The first part, dealing with the history of Byzantine art from the foundation of Constantinople (AD 330) to the end of Iconoclasm (AD 843).
b) The 2nd part is meant to investigate the byzantine icon, tracing its genesis, models and theological statute, on the grounds of the reflections of the Fathers of the Church (4th and 5th century) and the debate stemmed from the Iconoclastic crisis (726-843).
At the same time, the module will take into account the main pre-iconoclastic icons from the Byzantine East and some of the most significant painted tables of ancient Rus'.
It will also introduce the rediscovery of icons in the 20th century in Russia, between traditionalism and artistic avant-garde. Finally, we will read selected writings by Pavel A. Florenskij (1882-1937), the most rigorous and passionate modern advocate of the thought on images developed in Byzantium within the Second Council of Nicaea (787).
The course includes visits to some Roman pre-iconoclastic icons.

Bibliography
Attending students
• s. v. Costantinopoli, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, II, Roma 1985, pp. 880-919.
• C. Mango, Architettura bizantina, trad. it., Electa, Milano 1978, pp. 18-86.
• E. Kitzinger, Alle origini dell’arte bizantina. Correnti stilistiche nel mondo mediterraneo dal III al VII secolo, trad. it., Jaca Book, Milano 2004, pp. 27-150; figg. 35-231.
• M. L. Fobelli, Un tempio per Giustiniano. Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli e la Descrizione di Paolo Silenziario, Viella, Roma 2005, pp. 181-207, figg. 1-142.
• W. Tatarkiewicz, Storia dell’estetica, v. II. L’estetica medievale, Einaudi, Torino 1979, pp. 3-59.
• H. Belting, Il culto delle immagini. Storia dell’icona dall’età imperiale al tardo Medioevo, Carocci Editore, Roma 2001, pp. 13-203.
• Thomas F. Mathews, L’icona intima, in Scontro di dei. Una reinterpretazione dell’arte paleocristiana, Jaca Book, Milano 2005, pp. 91-100, 209-213, figg. 139-145.
• H. Belting, Gli inizi…; S. Romano, L’acheropita lateranense…; E. Parlato, La processione di Ferragosto…; H. Kessler, Il mandylion…; G. Wolf, Or fu sì fatta la sembianza vostra?”…, in Il volto di Cristo, catalogo a cura di G. Morello e G. Wolf, Electa, Milano 2000, pp. 25-31; 51-52; 67-76,77-99; 103-114.
• P. Zancher, Dal culto della “paideia” alla visione di Dio; M. Andaloro, I prototipi pagani e l’archetipo di Cristo; L’icona cristiana e gli artisti; Schede nn. 374-378, in Aurea Roma. Dalla città pagana alla città cristiana, catalogo a cura di S. Ensoli e E. La Rocca, “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, Roma 2000, pp. 407-412; 413-415; 416-424; 660-663.
• M. Andaloro, L’acheropita, in Il Palazzo apostolico lateranense, a cura di C. Pietrangeli,
Nardini Editore, Firenze 1991, pp. 80-88.
• K. Weitzmann, The Monastery of Saint Catharine at Mount Sinai: the icons. From the sixth to the tenth centry, v. 1, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1976, pagine scelte.
• Pavel A. Florenskij, Le porte regali. Saggio sull’icona, a cura di E. Zolla, Adelphi, Milano 1977 (10 ed.), pagine scelte.
• Further references will be provided throughout the course.

Non-attending students
Must add to the above texts:
• A. Grabar, Le origini dell’estetica medievale, Jaca Book, Milano 2001.
• E. Kitzinger Il culto delle immagini. L’arte bizantina dal cristianesimo delle origini all’Iconoclastia, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1992.
• Pavel A. Florenskij, Le porte regali. Saggio sull’icona, a cura di E. Zolla, Adelphi, Milano 1977 (10 ed.).

“Ex 509” students
The programme, equal to 4 CF, is as follows:
• s. v. Costantinopoli, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, II, Roma 1985, pp. 880-919.
• C. Mango, Architettura bizantina, trad. it., Electa, Milano 1978, pp. 18-86.
• E. Kitzinger, Alle origini dell’arte bizantina. Correnti stilistiche nel mondo mediterraneo dal III al VII secolo, trad. it., Jaca Book, Milano 2004, pp. 27-150; figg. 35-231.
• M. L. Fobelli, Un tempio per Giustiniano. Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli e la Descrizione di Paolo Silenziario, Viella, Roma 2005, pp. 181-207, figg. 1-142.
• W. Tatarkiewicz, Storia dell’estetica, v. II. L’estetica medievale, Einaudi, Torino 1979, pp. 3-59.
• H. Belting, Il culto delle immagini. Storia dell’icona dall’età imperiale al tardo Medioevo, Carocci Editore, Roma 2001, pp. 13-203.
• P. Zancher, Dal culto della “paideia” alla visione di Dio; M. Andaloro, I prototipi pagani e l’archetipo di Cristo; L’icona cristiana e gli artisti; Schede nn. 374-378, in Aurea Roma. Dalla città pagana alla città cristiana, catalogo a cura di S. Ensoli e E. La Rocca, “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, Roma 2000, pp. 407-412; 413-415; 416-424; 660-663.
• M. Andaloro, L’acheropita, in Il Palazzo apostolico lateranense, a cura di C. Pietrangeli,
Nardini Editore, Firenze 1991, pp. 80-88.
• Pavel A. Florenskij, Le porte regali. Saggio sull’icona, a cura di E. Zolla, Adelphi, Milano 1977 (10 ed.), pagine scelte.
• Further references will be provided throughout the course.

Attending, non-attending, ex 509 students:
They are all expected to have direct knowledge of the following icons:
• the Hodighitria from Santa Maria Antiqua, now in Santa Maria Nova;
• the Madonna della Clemenza, Santa Maria in Trastevere;
• the Hodighitria of Santa Maria ad Martyres, or Pantheon;
• the Haghiosoritissa, Oratorio di Santa Maria del Rosario in Montemario;
• the Salus Populi Romani, Santa Maria Maggiore;
• the acheiropoieta Christ, Sancta Sanctorum Chapel.

Attendance
Attendance to the course is highly recommended. Those who are unable to attend the lectures due to serious circumstances, should supplement the programme (see above) with additional readings to be agreed with the teacher.

N.B. Apart from whole books, which can be either found at public libraries or bought, any other materials will be available as photocopy or PDF at:
a) c/o Mr Fulvio Pagano, Laboratorio Informatico, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Via Ostiense 234, Roma;
b) Biblioteca delle Arti, Piazza della Repubblica 10, Roma.

II semester
Prof. Fabrizio Bisconti
LM - Early Christian and Medieval Iconography

Genesis and Early Development of Mosaic Decoration in Roman Building

Assignment:
M. Braconi, Il catino absidale di S.Pudenziana. La storia,il restauro,l'interpretazione, Todi 3026

Students not attending lessons must add:
F. Bisconti, Temi di iconografia paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000; introduction and a choice of 30 voices.

I semester
Prof. Fabrizio Bisconti
Christian Epigraphy

Texts and Figures carved in Roman Epigraphy

Relations between iconography and epigraphy in the inscribed production of roman christian cemeteries. The evolution of epigraphy till the poems of pope Damasus.

Assignment:
F. Bisconti, M.Braconi, Incisioni figurate della Tarda Antichità, Città del Vaticano 2013
A. Ferrua, C. Carletti, Damaso e i martiri di Roma, Città del Vaticani 1985

D.M.270 / 2004
Academic Year 2015-2016

Undergraduate Degree Course in History and Conservation of Artistic Heritage
Scientific Department L-Ant/07 (Classical Archaeology)

Name of discipline
The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

Supervisor: Prof. Luisa Musso Subject: The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

Credits – 6 CFU = 36 hours of classroom
First Semester
Hours - 36

Prerequisite requierementes
The course is designed for students enrolled in Laurea Magistrale, who have a good knowledge of Greek history, Roman history, Latin language and literature, Greek language and literature.

Course description
The organization and workings of Imperial Rome. The central administration and those of the Provinces. The role of the army.

Bibliography

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida alla studio della civiltà romana antica, edd. V. Ussani, F. Arnaldi, I, 1964, pp. 331-377.
• F. JACQUES, J. SCHEID, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992.
• E. LO CASCIO, Le tecniche dell'amministrazione, in Storia di Roma, II. L'impero mediterraneo, 2. I principi e il mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 119-191.
• L. CRACCO RUGGINI, La città imperiale, in Storia di Roma, IV. Caratteri e morfologie, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, pp. 201-266.
• MEYER-ZWIFFELHOFFER, Storia delle Province romane, Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, Bologna , 2011.
• P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 237-426. (reprint 2010).
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.


Further bibliographic references and other didactic materials (in particular texts by classical authors, transcriptions of inscriptions, images) will be provided during the lectures.

STUDENTS 509/99 – Bibliographic references and didactic materials should be discussed with the Supervisor.

It is highly recommended to attend the lectures.

Exam type – Oral

“Sons of the Covenant” or The asceticism in Syria before the birth of monasticism.
The course aims to introduce students to the great season of ascetic literature in Syriac language, represented by the Expositions of Afraates, the hymns of Efrem and the liber graduum. Particular attention will be paid to the historical context of which such literary production constitutes the expression, that is the institution of the "Sons of the Covenant,"an ascetic pattern that precedes monasticism and is sometimes in friction with episcopal power.

Bibliography:
- P. Bettiolo, Letteratura siriaca, in A.Di Berardino ( a cura di) Patrologia V. Dal Concilio di Calcedonia (451)
a Giovanni Damasceno (†750): I Padri Orientali, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Marietti, Genova
2000, pp. 413-493.
- V. Berti, Il monachesimo siriaco, in G.Filoramo (ed.), Monachesimo orientale. Un’introduzione, Morcelliana,
Brescia 2010, pp. 139-192.
Further indications will be provided during the class
For the students who can not attend class:
- P.Bettiolo, Letteratura siriaca, in A.Di Berardino ( a cura di) Patrologia V. Dal Concilio di Calcedonia (451) a
Giovanni Damasceno (†750): I Padri Orientali, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Marietti, Genova 2000,
pp. 413-493.
and one text among the following:
- G.Filoramo (ed.), Monachesimo orientale. Un’introduzione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2010.
- R. Murray, Symbols of Church and Kingdom. A Study in Early Syriac Tradition, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge 1975, repr. Gorgias Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2004.

Theme: Necropoleis and rock tomb architecture in Etruria and in other areas of the Mediterranean
Credits: 6
Semester: second (6 hours per week)
Hours: 36
Description of the course: This course deals with the main aspects - typology, architecture, decoration, chronology, ideology ecc. - of the phenomenon of rock architecture - mainly of funerary character - in Etruria and in other areas of the Eastern Mediterranean (Asia Minor, Near East, Cyrenaica ecc.) during the first millennium B.C.

See the bibliography under Italian "Bibliografia" !

The vase painting between Corinth, Sparta and Athens in the VII-V centuries B.C.

The course is for students of Science of Archaeology and students of other Master courses (particularly Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity, History of Art, etc.).
During the lessons will be considered the pottery productions made in Corinth, Sparta and Athens, between the seventh and fifth century. C. focusing on technical and iconographic aspects: from figurative themes, to the techniques of manufacturing goods, both as regards the organization of work .
The course will consist of head-on lessons, class discussion, educational visits.

The bibliography will be discussed during the first lesson of the course.

Selected bibliography.

L. Banti, s.v. Protocorinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, VI, Roma 1965;
Ch. Dehl von Kaenel, s.v. Protocorinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Secondo Supplemento, IV, Roma 1996.
L. Banti, s.v. Corinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, II, Roma 1959;
Ch. Dehl von Kaenel, s.v. Corinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Secondo Supplemento, II, Roma 1994.
J. Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting, London 1998.
C.A. Pfaff, Archaic Corinthian Architecture, in Corinth XX, The Centenary 1896-1996, Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a cura di C.K. Williams II, N. Bookidis, Princeton 2003, pp. 95-140.
N. Bookidis, The Sanctuaries of Corinth, in Corinth XX, The Centenary 1896-1996, Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a cura di C.K. Williams II, N. Bookidis, Princeton 2003, pp. 247-259.
Athens and Sparta, catalogo della mostra (New York, Onassis Center 2006-2007), a cura di N. Kaltsas, New York 2006.
P. Pelagatti, s.v. Laconici vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Roma 1961.
C.M. Stibbe, s.v. Laconici vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Secondo Supplemento, III, Roma 1995, pp. 249-251.
F. Coudin, Les vases laconiens entre Orient et Occident au Vie siècle av. J.-C.: formes et iconographie, in “Revue Archaeologique” (2009), pp. 227-263.
A. Tempesta, I quartieri artigianali, in I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, a cura di S. Settis, 4. Atlante, tomo II, Torino 2002, pp. 1065-1123.
I. Scheibler, Il vaso in Grecia. Produzione, commercio e uso degli antichi vasi in terracotta, (Biblioteca di Archeologia, 34), Milano 2004 (italian translation of Griechische Töpferkunst, München 1983), pp. 122-151.
M. C. Monaco, Ergasteria. Impianti artigianali ceramici ad Atene ed in Attica dal protogeometrico alle soglie dell’ellenismo, Roma 2000.
J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases. A Handbook, London 1974.
J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period: A Handbook, New York 1975.
J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period: A Handbook, New York 1989.

For students who have never passed a test of Greek Archaeology it is strongly recommended to read the manual: G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, Arte greca, Milano 2008. The use of another manual should be agreed with the teacher.

Working students or those otherwise unable to participate in activities have to agree a supplement program.

The course will focus on Plotinus treaty I, 2 On virtues. The text will be read and discussed in relation to Plotinus’ thought as well as to the cultural and philosophical context of neo-Platonism.

1: Plotino, Sulle virtù: I 2 [19], Introduzione, testo greco, traduzione e commento di Giovanni Catapano, Prefazione di John M. Rist, Edizioni Plus - Università di Pisa, Pisa, 2006
2: Riccardo Chiaradonna, Plotino, Carocci, Roma, 2009
3: Eric R. Dodds, Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus, “Journal of Roman Studies”, 50 (1960), pp. 1-7
4: Alessandro Linguiti, Plotinus and Porphyry on the Contemplative Life, in M. Bonazzi - Th. Bénatouil, Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life after Plotinus and Aristotle, Brill, Leiden, 2012, pp. 183-197
5: Charles Brittain, Attention Deficit in Plotinus and Augustine, “Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy” 18 (2003), 223-263

The course aims to analyze the notion of matter in Thomas Aquinas’ thought.
Through the analytical reading of some of the key-sections of the Commentary on Aristotle’ s Physics and Metaphysics and from the Summa contra Gentiles and the Summa Theologiae the course recalls the transformation of the Greek definition of matter in the theological and metaphysical framework of Thomas Aquinas, by assessing its contribution in relation to the theoretical thought of Anselm of Canterbury.

Sofia Vanni Rovighi, Introduzione a Tommaso d’Aquino, Roma-Bari 1986
B. Ippolito, Dio, il niente e la verità in Anselmo d’Aosta, Roma 2015.
B. Ippolito, Giovanni Duns Scoto: Un’introduzione filosofica, in corso di pubblicazione
Tommaso d’Aquino, Commento al Libro II della Fisica di Aristotele.
Tommaso d’Aquino, Commento al Libro VIII della Metafisica di Aristotele.
Tommaso d’Aquino, Summa contra gentiles, Brani scelti.
Tommaso d’Aquino, Summa theologiae, Brani scelti

Christian cult and images: sources and historiographic debates

The iconographic expression, as communicative tool of the religious message, follows the Christianity’s life, since the first centuries, with several senses and utilizations, but during the time on various occasions it was object for hard disputes about its use. The course intends to probe some forms of the visual language’s use from the Christian confessions, dwelling in particular upon the signification and enjoyment of figurative arts in the cult, homiletic and religious instruction, in particular the debate about the images’ use in the liturgy and religious practice in the Christian churches in the period of the protestant and catholic Reformation.

1) DANIELE MENOZZI, La Chiesa e le immagini. I testi fondamentali sulle arti figurative dalle origini ai nostri giorni, Cinisello Balsamo, San Paolo, 1995, pp. 1-65 e 133-244.

2) A text choose between:
- GENOVEFFA PALUMBO¸ Speculum peccatorum. Frammenti di storia nello specchio delle immagini tra Cinque e Seicento¸ Napoli, Liguori, 1990.
- Predicazione della parola e immagini, a cura di FRANÇOIS BOESPFLUG - DANIELE MENOZZI, numero monografico di «Cristianesimo nella storia» 14/3 (1993), pp. 473-672.
- STEVEN F. OSTROW, L'arte dei papi. La politica delle immagini nella Roma della Controriforma, Roma, Carocci, 2002.
- ILARIA BIANCHI, La politica delle immagini nell'età della Controriforma. Il cardinale Gabriele Paleotti teorico e committente, Bologna, Compositori, 2008.
- OTTAVIA NICCOLI, Vedere con gli occhi del cuore. Alle origini del potere delle immagini, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011.

Horace’s Epodes. In this course a literary setting of the liber Epodum by Horace will be offered, toghether with a reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a commentary, with particular care to the aspects of poetical shape and form (models, metrics, style).

- Orazio, Il libro degli Epodi, a cura di A. Cavarzere, Venezia (ed. Marsilio).
- E. Fraenkel, Horace, Clarendon Press: Chapters I (‘Vita Horati’) e II (‘The Epodes’).

The constitutio textus. Ecdotic workshop.

The LM module of Classical and Late Antique Philology intends to introduce the students of the master's degree course to the real ecdotic practice, placing them in direct and active confrontation with the multiplicity and complexity of the processes necessary for the constitutio textus of a critical edition, updated to the most recent techniques and methodologies of research, the preparation of the critical text and apparatuses, as well as of prolegomena, indexes and other editorial aids, always starting from the examination of manuscripts and from the reconstruction of their history, one preliminary, the other complementary to the recensio and to the constitution of the stemma codicum, as well as to the history of tradition.
Students will be introduced to the 'laboratory' of the recent edition of an important and so far critically unexplored text by the greatest Byzantine philologist, Eustathius of Thessalonica: the Exegesis in canonem iambicum, the author's latest work, destined in all probability to the higher education in Constantinople at the end of the 12th century, perhaps within the didaskaleion of the Prodromos Petra monastery, within which the history of its tradition developed and was probably confined. The Eustatian text is notable not only for the vastness and variety of the critical-methodological problems that it poses to its philologist publisher, but also for the conspicuous treasure of indirect tradition of classical and Late Antiquity texts, which bears in itself and which is still waiting to be completely excavated, screened, studied and adequately documented in the apparatus fontium et testimoniorum.

Bibliography:

A) Mandatory texts

- S. Ronchey – P. Cesaretti (edd.), Eustathii exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2013
- S. Ronchey, Introduzione storico-filologica, in P. Cesaretti – S. Ronchey (edd.), Eustathii exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2013
- P. Cesaretti, Introduzione storico-letteraria, in P. Cesaretti – S. Ronchey (edd.), Eustathii exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2013

B) Additional texts to be taken to the exam (to be chosen)

- S. Ronchey, L’ Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica. Saggio di edizione critica (acrostico-irmo dell’ode prima), Aev 59 (1985), pp. 241-266.
- S. Ronchey, Crise et continuité à Byzance. Georges Choiroboskos, Jean Arklas: deux auteurs de l’époque iconoclaste dans le prologue de l’exegesis in canonem iambicum d’Eustathe de Théssalonique,
IntByzCongr 1986, pp. 297-298.
- S. Ronchey, Sulla datazione dell’Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica, Ath, N.S. 74 (1986), pp. 103-110.
- P. Cesaretti, Eustazio di Tessalonica e l'etimologia di physis: una fonte stoica?, SCO 36 (1986), pp. 139-145.
- S. Ronchey, Riferimenti pindarici nell’ exegesis in canonem iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica, QUCC, N.S. 25 (1987), pp. 53-56.
- P. Cesaretti, Eustathios' Commentary on the pentecostal Hymn ascribed to St John Damascene: a New Critical Edition, SKBSB 5 (1987), pp. 19-22.
- P. Cesaretti, Interpretazioni aristofanee nel commento di Eustazio all'inno pentecostale attribuito a Giovanni Damasceno, RFC 3 (1987), pp. 169-213.
- P. Cesaretti, Su Eustazio e Venezia, Aev 62 (1988), pp. 218-227.
- S. Ronchey, An Introduction to Eustathios’ Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum, DOP 45 (1991), pp. 149-158.
- P. Cesaretti, Allegoristi di Omero a Bisanzio. Ricerche ermeneutiche (XI-XII secolo), Milano 1991.
- S. Ronchey, Those “whose writings were exchanged”. John of Damascus, George Choeroboscus and John ‘Arklas’ according to the Prooimion of Eustathius’s Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum de Pentecoste, in Sode - Takács 2001, pp. 327-336.

Practices of conviviality in Ancient Christianity.
The course aims to introduce, through the analysis of sources of different typology, to the various forms of
Christian commensality: Christians, in fact, from the first century, met periodically around a table to celebrate "agape", "refrigeria", Eucharistic rites. The critical reading of the sources will allow to face the main methodological questions inherent the study of the ancient liturgy.

Bibliography:
- Paul F.Bradshaw, Alle origini del culto cristiano. Fonti e metodi per lo studio della liturgia dei primi secoli,Libreria editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2007, pp.57-86; 137-166; 243-264.
- R.Penna, La cena del Signore, Dimensione storica e ideale, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2015.
For students who can not attend class:
- Paul F.Bradshaw, Alle origini del culto cristiano. Fonti e metodi per lo studio della liturgia dei primi secoli, Libreria editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2007, pp.57-86; 137-166; 243-264.
- R.Penna, La cena del Signore, Dimensione storica e ideale, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2015.
- S.Heid, La preghiera dei primi cristiani, Qiqajon, Magnano 2013.