In a recently published article in Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, G. González Germain examines a series of copies of the Epigrammata antiquae urbis (Rome, 1521) with the same set of annotations by Antonio Lelli, Giovenale Manetti, and other humanists. By so doing, he definitively identifies the author of these […]
From 15 to 20 July 2025, the 19th International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) was held at Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence (France). Two members of our research project participated in the conference: Gerard González Germain, who presented a paper entitled “Pulchra fui plumis et docto gutture. Some Unknown Verse Epitaphs for […]
On 29 April 2025, Sandra Cano Aguilera, who had defended her doctoral thesis only a few days earlier on 24 April, participated in the 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of Textual Scholarship (Manuscripts in the Age of Print), held at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours (France). She presented a […]
On 3 September 2024, Gerard González Germain gave a lecture titled “Modern Books on Ancient Stones: The Development and Reception of Printed Collections of Inscriptions in the 16th Century“. The event was hosted by the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance at the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University […]
We are delighted to announce the publication of Antiquarian Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Archaeology and Epigraphy in Printed Books and Manuscripts (De Gruyter 2024), edited by Joan Carbonell Manils and Gerard Gonzalez Germain. This book explores how antiquarian literature (collections of inscriptions, treatises, letters…) developed throughout the sixteenth century, both in manuscript and in […]