News & Events

14-20 July 2025, International Association for Neo-Latin Studies conference in Aix-en-Provence 🇫🇷

On Bastille Day, the entire team will travel to Provence to present at the XIX International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. Highlights of our week will include:

• Two panels on "Self-translation in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice", co-organized by Sara Miglietti (PI) and WB advisory board member Brenda Hosington. One panel will focus on Neo-Latin and Italian, while the other will look more broadly at interactions between Neo-Latin, (Neo-) Greek, and the Vernaculars. Both Marco Spreafico (PDRA) and Eugenia Sisto (PhD student) will give papers on these panels.

• A poster session during which Sara Miglietti (PI) will present the project at a glance.

• Chairing and attending project panels organized by our German and Italian friends on the Versio Latina and TransLATINg: Italian Literary Texts in Latin Translation projects.

13 October 2024 - New additions to the French corpus 🌇📝

Days may be getting shorter, but our list of self-translations only keeps growing!  Here is a digest of recent additions to the French corpus, which bring our total for the entire database to 458 unit works and 805 individual entries:

• Jean Boulaese's Le miracle de Laon en Lannoys in five different languages

• Several works by Symphorien Champier, some translated by himself, others by his son Claude: Ung petit traicte de la noblesse et anciennete de la ville de Lyon // Galliae Celticae... campus; Le triumphe du tres chrestien roy de France xii de ce nom (simultaneously in Latin and French); Officina apothecariorum // Le myrouel des appothiquaires et pharmacopoles; Petit traicté des fleuves et fontaines admirables estant és Gaules (missing Latin ST)

• Bonaventure Des Périers (? as Thomas du Clévier), Cymbalum mundi (missing/likely fictional Latin ST)

• Guillaume Du Bellay's Ogdoades in Latin and French (both in highly fragmentary state)

• André Du Laurens' Historia anatomica // Toutes les oeuvres (translated by his student Théophile Gelée)

• Jean Du Tillet's Chronicon de regibus Francorum // Chronique des roys de France

• Robert Estienne's Ad censuras theologorum Parisiensium [...] responsio // Les censures des theologiens de Paris 

• Jacques Grévin's commentary on Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, produced in both Latin (Anatomes totius aere insculpta delineatio) and French (Les portraicts anatomiques)

• Christophe de Héricourt's Histoire de la sacrée victoire // De sacro Jesu Christi triumpho

• Thierry de Héry, La methode curatoire de la maladie venerienne (missing Latin version)

• John Leslie, Libri duo // Les dévotes consolations

• Christophe de Longueil, Oratio de laudibus divi Ludovici atque Francorum (missing French TT) 

• Two works by Philippe de Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde: De Biënkorf der H Roomsche Kercke // Tableau des différens de la religion; and Oratio legatorum serenissimi principis Matthiae archiducis Austriae  // Oraison des ambassadeurs du Serenissime Prince Matthias Archiduc d'Austriche

• Several works by Jean-Papire Masson, some translated by himself,  others by his brother Jean: Annales Francorum (missing French TT); Historia Hispaniae (missing French TT); Vita inclyti principis domini Joannis Engolisme et petragoriorum comitis // La Vie de très illustre prince Jean, comte d'Angoulesme et de Périgueux; Consolatio ad... Philippum Huraltum Chevernium // Consolation... à... Messire Philippes Huraut, sieur de Cheverny; Forensis regionis descriptio // Notes sur le Forez.

• 9 multilinguage editions by Gabriel Meurier

• Jean Pélerin, De artificiali perspectiva in Latin and French

• Jacques Peletier du Mans, Cohortatio pacificatoria (missing French TT)

• Guillaume Postel's Interprétation du Candelabre de Moyse in four different languages 

• Peter Ramus' Oratio de legatione // Harangue, which was either self-translated or translated by a friend under Ramus' supervision

• François de Rosières, Stemmatum Lotharingiae ac Barri ducum tomi septem (missing French TT)

• Claude de Sainliens (aka Claudius Hollyband)'s Campo di fior in four different languages

• Charles de Sainte-Marthe, In obitum incomparabilis Margaritae... oratio funebris // Oraison funèbre de l'incomparable Marguerite

• Charles-Auguste de Sales, De Vita et rebus gestis... Francisci Salesii // Histoire du bien-heureux François de Sales

• Gérard de Vivre's Douze Dialogues et Colloques / Twaelf tzamensprekinghen

11 September 2024 - Brill to publish WBC! 📖

Dear Friends of Writing Bilingually, it is now official: we are thrilled to announce that the Writing Bilingually Catalogue & Anthology will be published by Brill as part of their "Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World" book series. We are absolutely delighted to be working with Brill on this project, and will keep you all updated on our progress over the next few months. 

30 August 2024 - New additions to the Italian corpus 🍂📚

Summer is nearly over, and we are pleased to announce a major update to our database! The following unit works have recently been added to the Italian corpus:

• Leo Africanus (Hasan al-Zayyati)’s Descrittione dell'Africa

• Anonymous (ps. Marsilio Ficino)’s Origini della fameglia Orsina

• Giuseppe Avanci’s Chorographia historica Sirmiensis // Chorografia istorica, del ducato, e provincia del Sirmio

• Bernardino Baldi’s Vita di Vitruvio // M. Vitruvii Pollionis Vita

• Basilio Bessarione’s De recta institutione vitae (GR) // De recta institutione vitae (LT)

• Basilio Bessarione’s Liber defensionum

• Basilio Bessarione’s Monodia in obitu Manuelis Palaeologi (GR) // Monodia in obitu Manuelis Palaeologi (LT)

• Basilio Bessarione’s Opuscola theologica (GR) // Opuscola theologica (LT)

• Filippo Bonanni’s Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente // Recreatio mentis, et oculi

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli’s Euclides restitutus // Euclide rinnouato

• Mino Celsi’s In Haereticis Coercendis

• Abramo de Balmes’ Peculium Abrae

• Francesco della Croce’s Desengaños para viuir, y morir bien // Disinganni per viuere, e morir bene

• Francesco della Croce’s Relacion de la vida del Ven. Siervo de Dios Fray Luis de Jesus // Relatione della vita del ven. seruo di Dio Fr. Luiggi di Giesu

• Azariah de’ Rossi’s Meʾor Enayim (HEB) // Meʾor Enayim (IT) (ch. 35)

• Lucio Fauno’s Delle antichità della citta di Roma // De antiquitatibus urbis Romae

• Filippo Finella’s Libri tres nevorum // Primo libro de nevi

• Clemente Galano’s Conciliationis ecclesiae armenae cum romana ex ipsis armenorum patrum

• Clemente Galano’s Grammaticae, et logicae institutiones linguae literalis Armenicae Armenis traditae

• Antonio Gallonio’s Trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare vsate da'gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame // De SS. martyrum cruciatibus

• Antonio Gallonio’s Vita beati patri Philippi Nerii Florentini // Vita del beato P. Filippo Neri fiorentino

• Bernardino Genga’s In Hippocratis Aphorismos ad chirurgiam spectantes. Commentaria … a Bernardino Genga de Mondulpho Status Urbini … Latino, ac Italico idiomate ad communiorem intelligentiam exarata

• Gian Giacomo Ghilini’s Fundationis hospitalis magni Mediolani // Relazione ai Deputati dell’Ospedale Grande di Milano

• Girolamo Giovannini’s Vaticinia seu praedictiones illustrium virorum / Vaticini overo predittioni d'huomini illustri

• Gian Mario Filelfo’s Raguseida

• Filippo Guadagnoli’s Apologia pro christiana religione (LT) // Pro christiana religione responsio (ARABIC)

• Giulio Cesare Guarini’s Felsina panegyricus illustrissimo Bononiensi senatui utraque lingua conscriptus

• Giovanni Lubelli (Lu Tairan/Lu Ande)’s Innocentia victrix

• Giovanni Antonio Magini’s Ephemerides coelestium motuum // Efemeride de i moti celesti

• Virgilio Malvezzi’s : Historia de los principales sucesos acontecidos en la monarquía de España en tiempo de Felipe Cuarto el Grande // Introduttione al racconto de' principali successi accaduti sotto il comando del potentissimo rè Filippo quarto libro primo

• Virgilio Malvezzi’s Sucesos principales de la monarquia de España en el año 1639 // Successi principali della monarchia di Spagna nell'anno 1639

• Antonio Manilio’s Prognosticon dialogale (LT) // Prognosticon dialogale (IT)

• Mino Mochi’s Epistolae (LT&IT)

• Carlo Montecuccoli’s Polemonis physionomia // Fisonomia di Polemone

• Gabriele Paleotti’s Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre et profane // De imaginibus sacris, et profanis

• Pietro Piperno’s De nuce maga Beneuentana // Della superstitiosa noce di Benevento

• Francesco Pona’s Medicinae anima, sive rationalis praxis epithome // Dell'anello fisico overo del ristretto dell'arte medica.

• Paolo Ramusio’s De bello constantinopolitano // Della guerra di Costantinopoli

• Giulio Cesare Recupito’s De Vesuviano incendio nuntius // Avviso dell'incendio del Vesuvio.

• Pasqualino Regiselmo’s Vaticinia, siue Prophetiae / Vaticinii, ouero Profetie

• Angelo Rocca’s Commentarius pro re domestica et nummaria saluteque animarum in primis conservanda ad Christiani orbis universitatem directus contra ludum alearium chartarum scilicet ac taxillorum // Trattato per la salute dell'anime e per la conservatione della robba e del denaro contra i giuochi delle carte e dadi

• Marino Sanudo’s La spedizione di Carlo VIII in Italia

• Marino Sanudo’s Commentari della guerra di Ferrara

• Obadiah Sforno’s Or ‘Ammim // Lumen Gentium

• Jacopo Silvestri’s Opus nouum, praefectis arcium, imperatoribus exercituum, patriae defensoribus, peregrinis, mercatoribus, militibus, ... pro cipharis, lingua Latina, Græca, Italica, ... Opera nuoua vtilissima a signori mercantanti & ad ogni qualita di persone

• Giovanni Battista Strozzi’s Della famiglia de Medici

• Fausto Veranzio’s Machinae … Cum declaratione latina, italica, hispanica, gallica, et germanica

• Giorgio Antonio Vespucci’s Esercizi di latino (LT&IT)

This brings the provisional total for the entire database to 417 unit works and 743 individual entries.

27-31 July 2024 - New additions to the French corpus! 📚

Research continues through the hot summer months, and we are pleased to inform you that 9 "unit works" have now been added to the French corpus: 

• Edmé Aubertin's Conformité de la créance de l'Eglise // De eucharistiae, sive Coenæ Dominicæ sacramento; 

• Jean Bagot's Défense du droit épiscopal // Defensio iuris episcopalis; 

• François Bourgoing's Veritates et sublimes excellentiae // Véritez et excellences de Jésus-Christ; 

• Nicolas Des Gallars' Forma politiae ecclesiasticae // Forme de police ecclesiastique

• Melchior de Flavin's Remonstrance de la vraye religion au roy tres chretien Charles IX (missing Latin source-text);

• Albert Girard's Tables des sinus // Tabulae sinuum; 

• Claude Gousté's Quae regia potestas // Traicté de la puissance et authorité des roys;

• Jean-Baptiste Morin's Trigonometriae canonicae libri tres // Trigonometrie canonique; 

• Bruno Pomperan's Exercitus Christiani libri tres (missing French target-text). 

You can now view these works in the "French corpus" section of our catalogue. This brings the provisional total for the entire database to 369 unit works and 667 individual entries. 

21 May 2024, seminar at HPS Cambridge 🇬🇧

Sara Miglietti (PI) presented at the Early Medicine and Science seminar hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy and Science at Cambridge. The focus of the seminar was on self-translations of medical and scientific works in early modern France. About 20 people were in attendance and during the Q&A we tackled topics such as global self-translation, the "self" of the self-translator, visual self-translation, and much more! Conversation continued over dinner at a nearby pub, seeking respite from the incessant rain. Sara is grateful to the HPS staff and students for their fantastic hospitality.

10-11 May 2024, international conference, Lincoln College, Oxford 🇬🇧

Marco Spreafico (PDRA) discussed pseudo-self-translations at the international conference "Forgeries, fakes, and counterfeits in print culture: texts, editions, copies", focusing on the specific case of pseudo-Bruni's Aquila Volante. His paper, entitled "Un autre est moi: Faking and Forging Self-Translations in Early Modern Italy and France", is being reworked for publication in the conference proceedings. 

28 February 2024, online seminar, Renaissance Philosophy Online

Sara Miglietti (PI) gave a talk entitled Latin and Vernacular in Renaissance Philosophy: The Case of Self-Translation as part of the Renaissance Philosophy Online seminar series. 

15 December 2023, End of Y1 project workshop (online) 

We met with members of our advisory board and selected invitees to take stock of our first year of work and discuss directions for future research. We are extremely grateful to all participants for enlightening feedback that has led to major improvements to our database and rationale. 

16 November 2023, seminar at Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York 🇬🇧

The lively interdisciplinary CREMS at York hosted Sara Miglietti (PI) for a talk entitled "‘Tant en françois qu’en latin': Self-translation and multilingual publishing in the Renaissance (the cases of Italy and France)". Conversation continued over dinner at SPARK, a lovely way to end the day! 

13-15 April 2023, international conference at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen 🇩🇪

Sara Miglietti (PI) and Marco Spreafico (PDRA) each gave papers at the international conference "The Wrong Direction: Early Modern Translations into Latin", discussing the issue of directionality in Latin/French self-translations (Miglietti) and in Girolamo Savonarola's bilingual work (Spreafico). The papers are being reworked for publication in the conference proceedings.