Philosophy
on the Border of Civilizations

Event

International Conference at SNS and IMT

International Conference "Making the Impossible Possible. On the Methodology for Editing Medieval Works with Massive Manuscript Tradition", Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca, 27-29 June 2018, organized by Amos Bertolacci and Tommaso Alpina

 

Program

Wednesday, 27 June: Sala Azzurra, Scuola Normale Superiore

9.00 SNS Institutional greetings to the participants

Introduction

Chair: Beatrice Gründler

9.30 Alba Fedeli (FSCIRE - Bologna), Qurʾān Text and Manuscripts: Relevant/Irrelevant Variant Readings and their Encoding

10.30 Coffee break

10.45 Alberto Cantera Glera (Freie Universität - Berlin), Trying to Display Ritual Variety in an Edition: the Case of the Edition of the Avestan Rituals

11.45 Giovanni Paolo Maggioni (Università degli Studi del Molise - Campobasso), L’edizione critica della Legenda aurea di Iacopo da Voragine

 

Chair: Carmela Baffioni

14.30 Filippomaria Pontani (Università Ca’ Foscari - Venezia), On First Looking into Teubner Homer: Some Modern Approaches to the Editing of the Iliad and the Odyssey

15.30 Paolo Trovato (Università degli Studi di Ferrara), The Case of Dante’s Commedia. Some Experience of Classification and Edition

16.30 Coffee break

16.45 Diana Di Segni (Universität zu Köln), A Comparative Apparatus for the Edition of the Latin Maimonides: an Open Question

17.45 Giovanni Licata (Scuola Normale Superiore), Sulla doppia tradizione (ebraica e latina) del De substantia orbis di Averroè. Prolegomeni a un’edizione critica della versione latina

Dinner

 

Thursday, 28 June: Cappella Guinigi, Scuola IMT

9.45 IMT Institutional greetings to the participants

Chair: S. M. Hadi Gerami (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies/Imam Sadiq University)

10.00 Carmela Baffioni (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale), The New Critical Edition of the Rasā’il Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ: a Work Journal

11.00 Coffee break

11.15 Beatrice Gründler (Freie Universität - Berlin), A Rat and Its Redactors: Silent Co-Authorship in Kalīla wa-Dimna

12.15 Christine van Ruymbeke (Darwin College – University of Cambridge), On the Existing Editions of Anvar-e Sohayli, the 15th-century Persian Version of Kalīla wa-Dimna

 

Chair: Richard Taylor (Marquette University)

14.15 Rüdiger Arnzen (Ruhr-Universität - Bochum), The Loneliness of the Sand Grain in the Neck of an Hourglass. How to Edit Texts with Massive Greek and (Arabo-)Latin Manuscript Traditions and a Uniquely Preserved Graeco-Arabic Translation in Between?

15.15 Cristina D'Ancona (Università di Pisa), The Textual Tradition of the pseudo-Theology of Aristotle

16.15 Coffee break 

16.30 Jules Janssens (Katholieke Universiteit - Leuven), The Critical Edition of the Latin Translation of the Liber de Causis: some Specific Challenges

18.00 Tour

Dinner

 

Friday, 29 June: Sala Azzurra, Scuola Normale Superiore

Chair: Christine van Ruymbeke

9.15 Dag N. Hasse (Julius-Maximilians Universität - Würzburg), Editing Averroes’ Commentum super libro Metaphysice on the Basis of 135 Extant Manuscripts and Early Prints

10.15 Iacopo Costa (CNRS, PSL, LEM (UMR 8584) – Commission Léonine), La Sententia libri De caelo de Thomas d’Aquin: éléments de critique textuelle

11.15 Coffee break

11.30 Amos Bertolacci (Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Scuola Normale Superiore), PhiBor’s Goals and Methodology

12.15 Matteo Gallo, Daniele Marotta, Simone Zenzaro (Scuola Normale Superiore), PhiBor’s Digital Tools

 

Chair: Dag N. Hasse

15.00 Victor Pallejà De Bustinza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona), Ivana Panzeca (Scuola Normale Superiore), PhiBor’s Search for Manuscripts

15.30 Tommaso Alpina, Alessia Astesiano, Gholamreza Dadkhah (Scuola Normale Superiore), PhiBor’s Data Management

16.15 Niccolò Caminada (Scuola Normale Superiore, Université Paris-Sorbonne), Gaia Celli, Silvia Di Vincenzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, EPHE - Paris), PhiBor’s Ecdotic Technique

17.00 Coffee break

17.15 Discussion and Conclusion

Dinner