Libraries, Lives and the Organization of Knowledge
in the Pre-Modern World
Organizers:
Christopher Celenza
Thomas Hendrickson
Irene SanPietro
December 12, 2013
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:45
Introduction: Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR’94 (Director, American Academy in
Rome)
Matthew Nicholls (University of Reading) “Libraries in Practice”
10:45-11:00
Coffee
11:00-11:45
Alexi Zadorojnyi (University of Liverpool) “Book-Culture and bibliotheke in the
Second Sophistic”
Thomas Hendrickson, FAAR’13 (Scuola Normale Superiore) “Portraiture, Biography,
and the Birth of the Author”
11:45-12:30
1:00-2:30
Lunch
2:30-3:15
Stephanie Frampton (AAR/MIT) “Cato’s Corpus: What to Do with Books in the De
finibus”
Ada Palmer (Texas A&M) “The Archetype of Noble Suicide in Early Modern
Biographies of Philosophers”
3:15-4:00
4:00-4:15
Coffee
4:15-5:00
5:00-5:45
Catherine Chin (AAR/UC Davis) “The Sermon in the Library”
Irene SanPietro (AAR/Columbia University) “The Making of a Christian Intellectual
Tradition in Jerome's De viris illustribus”
Greg Woolf (University of St. Andrews) “Ordering without a System. The Roman
Knowledge Order(s)”
5:45-6:30
6:30
Reception in the Salone
December 13, 2013
9:45-10:30
10:30-11:15
Shane Butler, FAAR’99 (University of Bristol) “Julius Pollux, Juke-Box”
Patrick Baker, FAAR’13 (Humboldt University, Berlin) “The Illustrious Men of Italian
Renaissance Humanism”
11:15-11:30
Coffee
11:30-12:15
Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen) “Ficino on the Ordering of Plato’s Dialogues:
How to Become a Platonic persona”
1:00-2:30
Lunch
2:30-3:15
3:15-4:00
Denis Robichaud (Notre Dame) “Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and the Persona Platonis”
Marianne Pade (Danish Academy in Rome) “Cui bono: The Commentary and the
Organization of Knowledge in the Renaissance. The case of Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu
copiae”
4:00-4:15
Coffee
4:15-5:00
Johannes Helmrath (Humboldt University, Berlin) “Biography and Nationalism in
Johannes Trithemius’s Catalogues”
Timothy Kircher (Guilford College) “Philosophical Personae and Humanist Dialogue”
Concluding Remarks: Kimberly Bowes, FAAR’06 (Professor-in-Charge, American
Academy in Rome)
5:00-5:45
5:45-6:00