Bologna as Hypata : Annotation, transformation, and transl(oc)ation in the circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna
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Carver, Robert Henry Fielding. (2017). Bologna as Hypata : Annotation, transformation, and transl(oc)ation in the circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna. In Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel pp. 221-238 De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503986-017
Authors | Carver, Robert Henry Fielding |
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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. |
Keywords | Filippo Beroaldo; Francesco Colonna; Renaissance |
Page range | 221-238 |
Year | 01 Jan 2017 |
Book title | Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Place of publication | United States |
ISBN | 9781501519420 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503986-017 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501503986-017/html |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
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Jan 2018 | |
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Deposited | 17 Jan 2024 |
Additional information | © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston |
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