Sebastian Brant: An Early Modern Editor of Vergil and Multimedia Text Annotation

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迪金森学院古典系讲座教授Christopher Francese

光启国际学者中心•古典学学术月(第一期)2015年6- 7月

主题:Sebastian Brant: An Early Modern Editor of Vergil and Multimedia Text Annotation

主讲:Christopher Francese    迪金森学院古典系讲座教授

时间:2015年6月10日14:00

地点:徐汇校区东部文苑楼708室

主办单位:上海师范大学光启国际学者中心


讲座内容:
    The illustrated edition of Vergil’s works by German humanist Sebastian Brant and Strasbourg printer Johannes Grüninger from 1502 is an extraordinary example of early European book printing. In addition to the lavish and intricate illustrations, it contains the notes of five different people, none of whom is Brant himself, and who lived many centuries apart, from the 4th century scholar Servius to the near contemporary Italian humanist Cristoforo Landino. The notes contain information about history, religion, grammar, plants and medicine, rhetoric, contemporary vernacular poetry, and much else. The illustrations are best thought of as a visual translation and commentary on the text, distinct but related to the textual commentary. Brant’s Vergil is strikingly different from most commentaries of today, in which a single master scholar typically gives one synthetic perspective on the text. It is a diverse, highly collaborative, multimedia edition, and one that can provide a way to think about creating a collaborative, polyphonic, multimedia editions of the Aeneid in the digital realm.