Bologna as Hypata: Annotation, Transformation, and Transl(oc)ation in the Circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna
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Robert H. F. Carver
Abstract
Beroaldo’s commentary on the Asinus aureus (Bologna, 1500) and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili attributed to Francesco Colonna (Venice, 1499) are two of the richest legacies of the Renaissance reception of Apuleius. The enterprise of editing, annotating, reading, and imitating Classical authors such as Apuleius involved, for Beroaldo and his circle, a degree of cognitive (and moral) realignment: Lucius’ metamorphosis from a donkey into a disciple of Isis serves as a metaphor for the transforming effects of the studia humanitatis. And the physical space of the folio page (commentary enveloping text) becomes a cultural locus, a site of personal and social, as well as critical and creative negotiation. Conversely, while creating an extravagant fiction of an Apuleian hero (Poliphilo) obsessed with the erotic embodiment of Antiquity (Polia), Colonna also invites his readers to re-enact the processes of Renaissance humanists as they try to reassemble the scattered fragments of the past and allow the dead to speak.
Abstract
Beroaldo’s commentary on the Asinus aureus (Bologna, 1500) and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili attributed to Francesco Colonna (Venice, 1499) are two of the richest legacies of the Renaissance reception of Apuleius. The enterprise of editing, annotating, reading, and imitating Classical authors such as Apuleius involved, for Beroaldo and his circle, a degree of cognitive (and moral) realignment: Lucius’ metamorphosis from a donkey into a disciple of Isis serves as a metaphor for the transforming effects of the studia humanitatis. And the physical space of the folio page (commentary enveloping text) becomes a cultural locus, a site of personal and social, as well as critical and creative negotiation. Conversely, while creating an extravagant fiction of an Apuleian hero (Poliphilo) obsessed with the erotic embodiment of Antiquity (Polia), Colonna also invites his readers to re-enact the processes of Renaissance humanists as they try to reassemble the scattered fragments of the past and allow the dead to speak.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Table of Contents VII
- Introduction 1
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Mapping the World in the Ancient Novel
- Sailing from Massalia, or Mapping Out the Significance of Encolpius’ Travels in the Satyrica 7
- Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’: Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka 17
- Permeable Worlds in Iamblichus’s Babyloniaka 29
- Babylonian Stories and the Ancient Novel: Magi and the Limits of Empire in Iamblichus’ Babyloniaka 39
- Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon 51
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The Dialogic Imagination
- Fortunata and Terentia: A Model for Trimalchio’s Wife 65
- Elements of Ancient Novel and Novella in Tacitus 79
- ‘A mirror carried along a high road’? Reflections on (and of) Society in the Greek Novel 93
- The Heroikos of Philostratus: A Novel of Heroes, and more 107
- Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe 123
- Arcadia Revisited: Material Gardens and Virtual Spaces in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and in Roman Landscape Painting 143
- Narrating Voyages to Heaven and Hell: Seneca, Apuleius, and Bakhtin’s Menippea 163
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Turning Points in Scholarship on the Ancient Novel
- Copyists’ Versions and the Readership of the Greek Novel 183
- Clues from the Papyri: Structure and Style of Chariton’s Novel 195
- New Evidence For Dating The Discovery At Traù Of The Petronian Cena Trimalchionis 209
- Bologna as Hypata: Annotation, Transformation, and Transl(oc)ation in the Circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna 221
- The First Japanese Translation of Daphnis & Chloe 239
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Boundaries: Geographical and Metaphorical
- Refiguring the Animal/Human Divide in Apuleius and Heliodorus 251
- Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe 263
- Rethinking Landscape in Ancient Fiction: Mountains in Apuleius and Jerome 277
- Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel 291
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Character and Emotion in the Ancient Novel
- Pity vs. Forgiveness in Pagan and Judaeo-Christian Narratives 305
- The Interaction of Emotions in the Greek Novels 315
- A Critique of Curiosity: Magic and Fiction in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 327
- Spectacles of a Dormant Soul: A Reading of Plato’s Gyges and Apuleius’ Lucius 341
- Why doesn’t Habrocomes run away from Aegialeus and his Mummified Wife?: Horror and the Ancient Novel 361
- List of Contributors 377
- Index nominum et rerum 381
- Index locorum 389
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Table of Contents VII
- Introduction 1
-
Mapping the World in the Ancient Novel
- Sailing from Massalia, or Mapping Out the Significance of Encolpius’ Travels in the Satyrica 7
- Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’: Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka 17
- Permeable Worlds in Iamblichus’s Babyloniaka 29
- Babylonian Stories and the Ancient Novel: Magi and the Limits of Empire in Iamblichus’ Babyloniaka 39
- Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon 51
-
The Dialogic Imagination
- Fortunata and Terentia: A Model for Trimalchio’s Wife 65
- Elements of Ancient Novel and Novella in Tacitus 79
- ‘A mirror carried along a high road’? Reflections on (and of) Society in the Greek Novel 93
- The Heroikos of Philostratus: A Novel of Heroes, and more 107
- Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe 123
- Arcadia Revisited: Material Gardens and Virtual Spaces in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and in Roman Landscape Painting 143
- Narrating Voyages to Heaven and Hell: Seneca, Apuleius, and Bakhtin’s Menippea 163
-
Turning Points in Scholarship on the Ancient Novel
- Copyists’ Versions and the Readership of the Greek Novel 183
- Clues from the Papyri: Structure and Style of Chariton’s Novel 195
- New Evidence For Dating The Discovery At Traù Of The Petronian Cena Trimalchionis 209
- Bologna as Hypata: Annotation, Transformation, and Transl(oc)ation in the Circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna 221
- The First Japanese Translation of Daphnis & Chloe 239
-
Boundaries: Geographical and Metaphorical
- Refiguring the Animal/Human Divide in Apuleius and Heliodorus 251
- Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe 263
- Rethinking Landscape in Ancient Fiction: Mountains in Apuleius and Jerome 277
- Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel 291
-
Character and Emotion in the Ancient Novel
- Pity vs. Forgiveness in Pagan and Judaeo-Christian Narratives 305
- The Interaction of Emotions in the Greek Novels 315
- A Critique of Curiosity: Magic and Fiction in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 327
- Spectacles of a Dormant Soul: A Reading of Plato’s Gyges and Apuleius’ Lucius 341
- Why doesn’t Habrocomes run away from Aegialeus and his Mummified Wife?: Horror and the Ancient Novel 361
- List of Contributors 377
- Index nominum et rerum 381
- Index locorum 389