GLOBAL LATIN, II

Latin as a vector of cultural exchange and language of science

in the late Middle Ages and early modern times

Siena, Santa Chiara Lab, 5 Sep h. 15-19, 6 Sep h. 9-18. Follows in Pisa as Roma Sinica III, 7-9 Sep.

Streaming Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/dfclam_unisiena

GLOBAL LATIN II, SIENA - PROGRAM

ROMA SINICA III, PISA - PROGRAM

5 September, 15.00-18.30

THE CULTURAL EXCHANGE AND THE ROLE OF LATIN

15.00 Francesco Frati (Rector - Univ. of Siena), Francesco Stella (Director of the Center "I Deug-Su" - Univ. of Siena)

CHAIR: Noël Golvers (Univ. Louvain)

15.15 Françoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris), Observatoires locaux, valeurs globales. Discours sur l’universalité du latin ABSTRACT

16.00 Adriano Prosperi (SNS, Pisa), Un caso speciale, il latino come lingua sacra

16.45 Coffee Break

CHAIR Sven Günther (Northeast Normal University)

17.00 Yasmin Haskell (Univ. of Western Australia), Deities, demons... or decoration? Eastern gods in Francesco Benci’s “Quinque martyres” (1591) and Bartolomeu Pereira’s “Paceidos libri xii” (1640) ABSTRACT

17.30 Anna Di Toro (Unistrasi - Siena), La grammatica cinese in latino di Prémare ABSTRACT

18.00 Philipp Roelli (Univ. Zürich), The types of scientific Latin used by authors in China

18.30 Discussion

6 September, 9.30-13.00

THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNEXPLORED TEXTUAL HERITAGE JAPAN-CHINA

CHAIR Maurizio Bettini (Univ. di Siena)

9.30 Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo) Mercury and the Argonauts in Japan Myths and Martyrs in Jesuit Neo-Latin

10.00 Aldo Tollini (Univ. Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Il ruolo del latino nelle missioni cristiane in Giappone del XVI e XVII secolo

10.30 Coffee Break

Cina - China

11.00 Mingguang Xie (Beijing Foreign Studies University, Massimiliano Carloni (ÖAW, Wien), The Italian Jesuit Michele Ruggieri and his Latin Poems on Chinese Missions

11.30 Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (TU Dresden), Latin as a world language? China as test case ABSTRACT

12.00 Discussion

6 September, 15.00-18.00

NEW HORIZONS, NEW PROJECTS

CHAIR Jung Imsuk (Unistrasi - Siena)

Corea

15.00 Ahn Jaewon (Seoul National University), On the significance of Latin language in Korean Historiography: focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279 PAPER

15.30 Kim Kukjin (Unistrasi - Siena), Le conoscenze mediche in lingua latina nella Corea del XVIII secolo ABSTRACT

Africa

16.00 Leonardo Cohen (Univ. of Be’er Sheva), Paul Rodrigue (Univ. of Cambridge, UK), Expeditio Aethiopica by the Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia: A Dispute with an European Jew Concerning the Divine Nature of the Messiah

16.30 Coffee Break

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

CHAIR Gastón Xavier Basile (Univ. of Buenos Aires)

17.00 Maria Cristina De Castro Maia Pimentel, Res Sinicae project (Univ. of Lisbona), Persuadere, discutere e informare: l’uso del latino nelle “Cartae Annuae” inviate dalla Cina ABSTRACT

17.30Stefan Zathammer - Dominik Berrens (Univ. Innsbruck), NOSCEMUS - Nova Scientia: Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin

18.00 Tavola rotonda - Round table, with Chiara Tommasi (Univ. Pisa - SERICA), Andrea Balbo (Univ. Torino - SERICA), Kim Kihoon (Seoul National University)

Conclusions: towards the meeting in Pisa

Press: Federica Argento, "Secolo d'Italia", 1 settembre 2022