Latin responses to Horatian lyric, 1150 to the present is the inaugural event of the Canons of Latinity network. The two-day conference is free to attend: lunch and refreshments will be provided. It will take place at the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford.
Registration is compulsory: please email tristan.franklinos@classics.ox.ac.uk including any dietary requirements in that message.
The organisers, Tristan Franklinos and Stephen Harrison, are grateful to Corpus Christi College and the John Fell Fund for their financial support.
Thursday 16 April 2026
0900–0945 Marc Laureys
Imitation and emulation of Horace in the lyric poetry of Giano Pelusio (1520–1600).
0945–1030 Hélène Bufort
Girolamo Carbone’s Sapphic Ode IX and its Horatian hypotext: an example of generic hybridity in the Renaissance.
1030–1115 Mateusz Wiater
Between the Latin and Polish Muse: political poems from the fourth book of Sarbiewski’s Odes.
1115–1135 Tea & Coffee
1135–1220 James Clark
Moralising with Horatian lyric: William Gager’s Odes.
1220–1255 Thomas Haye
Horace in the service of the university: the Latin lyric of Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761).
1255–1400 Lunch
1400–1445 Gesine Manuwald
Lyric poetry for friends: Horace and Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488–1540).
1445–1530 Neven Jovanović
Lyric tradition in the Croatiae auctores Latini collection.
1530–1615 Grażyna Urban-Godziek
The composition of sixteenth-century northern European lyrical collections: Johannes Secundus’ Odarum liber and Jan Kochanowski’s Lyricorum libellus.
1615–1635 Tea & Coffee
1635–1720 Nicholas De Sutter
Horace in the Age of Nations: Neo-Latin lyric, war, and national identity in the nineteenth century, from Crimea to Risorgimento.
1720–1805 Llewelyn Morgan
Horatian lyric at the finis saeculi: J. P. Steele and others.
Friday 17 April 2026
0900–0945 Hélène Casanova-Robin
Poetry and philosophy in the alcaics of Marullo’s Hymni naturales.
0945–1030 Irina Tautschnig
Odes on the nature of things: Neo-Latin scientific lyric.
1030–1115 Sven Johannes
Castalii procul valete rores. Framing the ‘new’ in Aloysius Ferronius’ ode on chocolate (1664).
1115–1135 Tea & Coffee
1135–1220 Tristan Spillmann
Reinventing an old authority: imitations of Horace in Filelfo’s Odes. Part I: Filelfo’s addressees and poetic networking.
1220–1255 Gernot Michael Müller
Reinventing an old authority: imitations of Horace in Filelfo’s Odes. Part II: Filelfo’s poetic roles in his Odes and their Horatian background.
1255–1400 Lunch
1400–1445 Anders Kirk Borggaard
From Flaccus to Blaccus: Horatianism and confessional strife in the Odae sacrae (1549) of Hans Black.
1445–1530 Simon Smets
From Odes to Psalms – and back: imitating Horace, recasting David in the early modern period.
1530–1615 Kristi Viiding
800 years of Horace in the Baltics: verbum irrevocabile.
1615–1635 Tea & Coffee
1635–1720 Maurice Jensen
Cristoforo Landino’s commentary on Horace: divergent approaches to his lyric poetry and the Ars poetica.
1720–1805 Christoph Pieper
Horatius apud Florentinos ‘canonizatus’ – reflections on the importance of Cristoforo Landino’s Horatian imitations and commentary.
