Gian Biagio Conte
Biographic Data
| ID | 1307401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gian Biagio Conte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gian Biagio |
| FAMILY NAME | Conte |
| SIGNATURE | CONTE G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pisa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon
Verifica di un pregiudizio scettico: Riflessioni vecchie e nuove sull’episodio di Elena in Eneide II
The author returns to a much debated topic, the so-called “Episode of Helen”, which has come to us only through indirect transmission, and endeavors to dismantle the prejudice against Virgilian authorship. G. P. Goold’s pugnacious intervention, dating back to more than half a century ago, contributed decisively – in fact, more than it should have – to the thesis that the text is spurious. A critical analysis of the text will demonstrate this clai…
Virgilian Parerga: Textual Criticism and Stylistic Analysis
A Hallmark of Virgil’s Style: Syntactic Coordination in the Aeneid
Stealing the club from Hercules on imitation in Latin poetry: On Imitation in Latin Poetry
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides the reader in a fascinating journey in the history of transmission and interpretation of Georgics and Aeneid and shows how lively textual criticism can be
Stealing the Club from Hercules: On Imitation in Latin Poetry
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides the reader in a fascinating journey in the history of transmission and interpretation of Georgics and Aeneid and shows how lively textual criticism can be
Critical Notes on Virgil: Editing the Teubner Text of the "Georgics" and the "Aeneid"
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides the reader in a fascinating journey in the history of transmission and interpretation of Georgics and Aeneid and shows how lively textual criticism can be
On the text of theAeneid: An editor’s experience
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Latin Literature and its Transmission
This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil, and there are also essays on the Renaissance reception of Virgil and on principles of editorial practice. The collectio…
Ope ingenii: Experiences of Textual Criticism
This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some Greek and Latin literary texts. Advanced students and scholars are offered an…
Viktor Pöschl und die Poetik des Symbols. Festvortrag anlässlich der Gedenkfeier zum 100. Geburtstag
Article Viktor Pöschl und die Poetik des Symbols. Festvortrag anlässlich der Gedenkfeier zum 100. Geburtstag. was published on December 17, 2010 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 56, issue 1)
Aeneis
A new edition of the Aeneid requires not only a systematic and reliable assessment of the text, but also a satisfactory and, if possible, complete description of the manuscripts' transmission. Here, not only were the seven Late Antique codices studied anew, but the recensio was also extended by drawing on sources from the Carolingian Age only some of which were incorporated by earlier editors. To this end eight tesimonies which had never been stu…
The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism
Defensor Vergilii: Richard Heinze on Virgil’s Epic Technique
This chapter discusses the work of Richard Heinze on Virgil's Aeneid. It provides a fascinating and well-informed analysis of Heinze's work in his epoch-making ‘Virgil's Epic Technique.’ This does not merely present Heinze's well-known role as the founder of the modern study of the poem's subjectivity, but most effectively sets his concerns and critical stance in the German intellectual context of his time. This chapter notes the ‘carve-up’ of Vi…
Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime
This chapter discusses the anatomy of a style, showing how the phenomenon of enallage was noted in the ancient commentators and associated with Virgil's supposed cacozelia, ‘lack of taste,’ but conversely how its defamiliarising effect actually elicits the feeling of sublimity traditionally seen in epic by critics such as Longinus. It also looks to ground the critical perceptions in detailed analysis of the epic language of the Aeneid. The chapte…
Introduction by Stephen Harrison
This chapter describes the new collection of papers on Virgil and characterises Gian Biagio Conte's scholarly output as a whole and its development over the years. In much of the collection, Conte makes a crucial argument that the exceptional status of the Aeneid in Latin literature derives from its remarkably complex and ambiguous poetic texture. This book shows Conte's characteristic powers of focused analysis and critical exploitation of detai…
The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos
This chapter discusses the Virgilian paradox, an epic of drama and pathos that goes back to the origins of modern debate on Virgil in the Romantic period, where the supposed natural primitivism and fresh naivete of Homer was commonly and unfavourably contrasted with the more artificial and sophisticated Virgilian epic. It argues that Virgil too sensed from the beginning that the naturalness and noble simplicity of Homer was essentially irrecovera…
Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals
This chapter discusses several reconsiderations and proposals towards a new exegesis of Virgil and continues the theme of Virgilian scholarship. It points to the importance and diversity of the commentary tradition on Virgil and to the cultural situatedness of its practitioners, with illuminating remarks on such figures as Germanus, de la Cerda, Forbiger and Nettleship, Traina and Puttnam, and on how a modern commentary might cope with modern lit…
Proems in the Middle
This chapter discusses proems, a notable term to the grammar of classical literary scholarship. It traces the development of the poetic proem from plot-summary to programme, and stresses how programmatic restarts are found at the beginning of the second half of many poetic works and books, both in Virgil and elsewhere like Lucretius and Horace. This is a key tool in the analysis of Latin and other poetry. At the border between fully poetic speech…
The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid
This chapter discusses the strategy of contradiction as a dramatic form of the Aeneid. It uses the insights gathered in the analyses of the remainder of the book to discuss and deconstruct the two most prominent positions in the interpretation of the ideology of the Aeneid. It argues that scholars are too keen to remove contradiction and ambiguity in their interpretations of literary discourse and further argues for a more inclusive and balanced …
Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics: Once again
This chapter discusses Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics. Reacting favourably to Jasper Griffin's justly influential article on Georgics 4, it agrees that readers need an interpretation that can encompass the whole of the Georgics and show its essential unity. The chapter also reinforces the crucial original perception that Aristaeus is an extrapolation on the mythical level of the farmer of the Georgics and makes the equally convincing argume…
The Poetry of Pathos
This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detail…
The Virgilian paradox: An Epic of Drama and Sentiment
Every powerful critical idea is the product of a particular interpretive situation: we could even say, with considerable simplification, that it is the product of a prejudice. Every cultural moment develops its own critical myth (or prejudice), and reasons and interprets within the limits of this horizon. Often it needs only a short time for the myth to wither, the prejudice to decay; we realize that its claims, born of a particular historical pe…
Latin Literature: A History
This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the six…
On the Shoulders of Giants: Progress and Perspectives in Latin Studies
Cornelius Nepos tells us that when Cato talked of wars, he did not mention the generals' names, but stuck to events without ever glorifying the protagonists. He saw the military exploits themselves as important and not the pride they might inspire in noblemen who were often more concerned with their personal merit than the glory of the Roman people. However, he made a few exceptions to this rule, which, precisely because they were rare, made the …
The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius’s Satyricon
The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." But this episode is only one part of the larger picture of life during Nero's rule presented in the work. In this accessible discussion of Petronius's masterful use of parody, Gian Biagio Conte offers an interpretation of the Satyricon as a whole. He combines the scholarly precision of close re…
Love without Elegy: The Remedia amoris and the Logic of a Genre
At a prominent point in the middle of the Remedia amoris, Ovid momentarily interrupts his series of therapeutic lessons to make room for a statement of poetics. Such statements are customary in the register of literary polemics; some evil-minded people had criticized Ovid for his daring teachings in the Ars amatoria, and the polemic tradition (of Callimachean origin) requires that the poet, in justifying the literary techniques he has chosen, als…
The Poetry of Pathos
This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detail…
Ope ingenii: Experiences of Textual Criticism
This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some Greek and Latin literary texts. Advanced students and scholars are offered an…
Critical Notes on Virgil: Editing the Teubner Text of the "Georgics" and the "Aeneid"
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides the reader in a fascinating journey in the history of transmission and interpretation of Georgics and Aeneid and shows how lively textual criticism can be
Stealing the Club from Hercules: On Imitation in Latin Poetry
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides the reader in a fascinating journey in the history of transmission and interpretation of Georgics and Aeneid and shows how lively textual criticism can be
Latin Literature: A History
This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the six…
Il genere e i suoi confini: Cinque studi sulla poesia di Virgilio
Petronius, Sat. 141.4
These are the very last words of Eumolpus' testament. The editors all print them thus, but I suspect a hidden corruption in devoverint . The text may seem to have an acceptable meaning, but only on a superficial reading inattentive to the whole context. A certain exegetical discomfort becomes noticeable if the translations are compared: Ernout renders ‘maudire mon âme’, Ehlers in Müller's second and third editions translates ‘sie meinen letzten A…
Love without Elegy: The Remedia amoris and the Logic of a Genre
At a prominent point in the middle of the Remedia amoris, Ovid momentarily interrupts his series of therapeutic lessons to make room for a statement of poetics. Such statements are customary in the register of literary polemics; some evil-minded people had criticized Ovid for his daring teachings in the Ars amatoria, and the polemic tradition (of Callimachean origin) requires that the poet, in justifying the literary techniques he has chosen, als…
Proems in the middle
How to begin a poem forms an established part of rhetorical theory. But in practice poets know that the solemn celebration of a beginning is something that far transcends rhetoric: the exordium is an inauguration, almost a liturgy which mediates the text's passage and thereby permits it to escape from silence and to enter into the literary universe. At the border between fully poetic speech and speech still outside of poetry, the proem – the prel…
The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius’s Satyricon
The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." But this episode is only one part of the larger picture of life during Nero's rule presented in the work. In this accessible discussion of Petronius's masterful use of parody, Gian Biagio Conte offers an interpretation of the Satyricon as a whole. He combines the scholarly precision of close re…
The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon
Latin Literature: A History
This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the six…
On the Shoulders of Giants: Progress and Perspectives in Latin Studies
Cornelius Nepos tells us that when Cato talked of wars, he did not mention the generals' names, but stuck to events without ever glorifying the protagonists. He saw the military exploits themselves as important and not the pride they might inspire in noblemen who were often more concerned with their personal merit than the glory of the Roman people. However, he made a few exceptions to this rule, which, precisely because they were rare, made the …
The Virgilian paradox: An Epic of Drama and Sentiment
Every powerful critical idea is the product of a particular interpretive situation: we could even say, with considerable simplification, that it is the product of a prejudice. Every cultural moment develops its own critical myth (or prejudice), and reasons and interprets within the limits of this horizon. Often it needs only a short time for the myth to wither, the prejudice to decay; we realize that its claims, born of a particular historical pe…
The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism
Defensor Vergilii: Richard Heinze on Virgil’s Epic Technique
This chapter discusses the work of Richard Heinze on Virgil's Aeneid. It provides a fascinating and well-informed analysis of Heinze's work in his epoch-making ‘Virgil's Epic Technique.’ This does not merely present Heinze's well-known role as the founder of the modern study of the poem's subjectivity, but most effectively sets his concerns and critical stance in the German intellectual context of his time. This chapter notes the ‘carve-up’ of Vi…
Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime
This chapter discusses the anatomy of a style, showing how the phenomenon of enallage was noted in the ancient commentators and associated with Virgil's supposed cacozelia, ‘lack of taste,’ but conversely how its defamiliarising effect actually elicits the feeling of sublimity traditionally seen in epic by critics such as Longinus. It also looks to ground the critical perceptions in detailed analysis of the epic language of the Aeneid. The chapte…
Introduction by Stephen Harrison
This chapter describes the new collection of papers on Virgil and characterises Gian Biagio Conte's scholarly output as a whole and its development over the years. In much of the collection, Conte makes a crucial argument that the exceptional status of the Aeneid in Latin literature derives from its remarkably complex and ambiguous poetic texture. This book shows Conte's characteristic powers of focused analysis and critical exploitation of detai…
The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos
This chapter discusses the Virgilian paradox, an epic of drama and pathos that goes back to the origins of modern debate on Virgil in the Romantic period, where the supposed natural primitivism and fresh naivete of Homer was commonly and unfavourably contrasted with the more artificial and sophisticated Virgilian epic. It argues that Virgil too sensed from the beginning that the naturalness and noble simplicity of Homer was essentially irrecovera…
Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals
This chapter discusses several reconsiderations and proposals towards a new exegesis of Virgil and continues the theme of Virgilian scholarship. It points to the importance and diversity of the commentary tradition on Virgil and to the cultural situatedness of its practitioners, with illuminating remarks on such figures as Germanus, de la Cerda, Forbiger and Nettleship, Traina and Puttnam, and on how a modern commentary might cope with modern lit…
Proems in the Middle
This chapter discusses proems, a notable term to the grammar of classical literary scholarship. It traces the development of the poetic proem from plot-summary to programme, and stresses how programmatic restarts are found at the beginning of the second half of many poetic works and books, both in Virgil and elsewhere like Lucretius and Horace. This is a key tool in the analysis of Latin and other poetry. At the border between fully poetic speech…
The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid
This chapter discusses the strategy of contradiction as a dramatic form of the Aeneid. It uses the insights gathered in the analyses of the remainder of the book to discuss and deconstruct the two most prominent positions in the interpretation of the ideology of the Aeneid. It argues that scholars are too keen to remove contradiction and ambiguity in their interpretations of literary discourse and further argues for a more inclusive and balanced …
Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics: Once again
This chapter discusses Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics. Reacting favourably to Jasper Griffin's justly influential article on Georgics 4, it agrees that readers need an interpretation that can encompass the whole of the Georgics and show its essential unity. The chapter also reinforces the crucial original perception that Aristaeus is an extrapolation on the mythical level of the farmer of the Georgics and makes the equally convincing argume…
The Poetry of Pathos
This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detail…
Aeneis
A new edition of the Aeneid requires not only a systematic and reliable assessment of the text, but also a satisfactory and, if possible, complete description of the manuscripts' transmission. Here, not only were the seven Late Antique codices studied anew, but the recensio was also extended by drawing on sources from the Carolingian Age only some of which were incorporated by earlier editors. To this end eight tesimonies which had never been stu…
Viktor Pöschl und die Poetik des Symbols. Festvortrag anlässlich der Gedenkfeier zum 100. Geburtstag
Article Viktor Pöschl und die Poetik des Symbols. Festvortrag anlässlich der Gedenkfeier zum 100. Geburtstag. was published on December 17, 2010 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 56, issue 1)
Ope ingenii: Experiences of Textual Criticism
This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some Greek and Latin literary texts. Advanced students and scholars are offered an…
On the text of theAeneid: An editor’s experience
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Latin Literature and its Transmission
This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil, and there are also essays on the Renaissance reception of Virgil and on principles of editorial practice. The collectio…
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