Prof. Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, gives two talks on:

• "Two early modern papal hexameter poems" (organized by CDNL)
• "Catullus in Ireland after 1960" (jointly organized by CDNL and CLIC)

"Two early modern papal hexameter poems"
This paper presents two hexameter poems by clerics who would become Pope in due course: Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644; pope as Urban VIII 1623-44) and Fabio Chigi (1599-1667; pope as Alexander VII 1655-67). The teenaged Barberini's poem is from the 1580s and on Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, then governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands to Philip II, continuing a Vergilian tradition of combining pastoral colour with political encomium. The middle-aged Chigi's poem is a letter home from 1648, when he had been papal nuncio in Germany for some years, and expresses dismay at the devastation of Germany over the last generation of the Thirty Years War, echoing the epistles of Horace and the exilic Ovid as well as Vergil and Lucan on civil war. The talk is a foretaste of my The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Resorgimento (Bloomsbury, April 2024).

Together with: "Catullus in Ireland after 1960"

For details, see https://cdnl.dk/kalender.htm

Lokale
1481-568, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Nobelparken, AU