Questo lavoro di ricerca offre una presentazione della figura del frate domenicano fiorentino Luca Mannelli e un saggio di edizione della sua Tabulatio et Expositio Senece, un repertorio lemmatico di testi delle opere senecane e commentato con citazioni tratte da diversi autori, commissionatogli dal papa Clemente VI. Viene ripercorsa la biografia del Mannelli, con indicazione delle sue opere minori. Della Tabulatio, viene condotta per la prima volta un'analisi completa: descrizione analitica dei tre manoscritti dell'opera: Paris. Bibl. Nat. Lat. 8174, Salamanca bibl. Univ. 2638 e Kracow. Bibl. Jagell. 706,. Oltre a questi si descrivono Paris. Bibl. Nat. 8715 e Città del Vaticano, BAV. Borgh. 10; il primo costituisce una editio minor della Tabulatio, il secondo è stato erroneamente ricondotto all'opera del fiorentino, mentre dall'esame è risultato un florilegio senecano antecedente. L'opera, vastissima benché giuntaci per metà, viene contestualizzata nella realtà avignonese per la quale è stata prodotta e confrontata con la biblioteca papale di cui si è riconosciuto un manoscritto. Si dà infine un saggio di edizione di: lettera dedicatoria, prologo; voci: abstinentia, actio, adulterium, affectus, agricola, ambitio, amor, auctor. L'edizione si basa sulla recensione completa della tradizione. / Florentine Dominican Luca Mannelli's major achievement Tabulatio et expositio Senece is presented in a provisional edition, with an outline of Mannelli's life. The Tabulatio, commissioned by Pope Clement VI around the first half of the fifteenth century, is an itemized list which exploits Seneca's works and other classic as well as patristic texts. A thoroughly researched contextualized biography of Luca Mannelli is firstly provided. Furthermore, a substantial analysis of the Tabulatio is combined with a complete examination of the manuscript tradition, which consists of three witnesses (described in details): Paris, BnF Lat. 8174; Salamanca, Bibl. Univ., 2638 and Kraców, Biblioteka Jagiello?ska, 706. Two further manuscripts are dealt with: Paris, BnF Lat. 8715, a kind of editio minor of Mannelli's Tabulatio; and Borgh. 10, held by the Vatican Library, which has revealed itself as a different Senecan florilegium. With the aim of providing a contextualization of this huge literary undertaking within the cultural framework of Avignon papacy, the author examines the following sections of the work: the dedicatory letter, the prologue, some headwords: abstinentia, actio, adulatio, adulterium, affectus, agricola, ambitio, amor, auctor. This edition is the result of the most comprehensive survey ever conducted into the manuscript tradition of the Tabulatio

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Classical Languages and Literatures, December 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis--Utrecht. / "Tekst Ep. 90: 14 p. inserted." Bibliography: p. [232].

Inaug.-diss.--Munich. / Lebenslauf. "Literatur": p. 79.

This dissertation seeks to demonstrate Lucan's profound engagement and conflict with two ancient intellectual and literary traditions that can both be regarded as escapist, that is, as promising or postulating a sanctuary (whether physical or spiritual) from the world's troubles, and that were both active in Lucan's own day: utopian writing about science, exemplified in Latin by Lucan's uncle Seneca the Younger, as well as by the astronomical poet Manilius, and utopian Egyptology, as reflected in a wide variety of texts ranging from Herodotus, through Diodorus Siculus, to Lucan's contemporary, the Alexandrian polymath Chaeremon. To this end, I have examined two closely related sequences in the De Bello Civili that have received little attention from scholars of Lucan, namely Pompey's journey to Egypt in Book Eight and Caesar's Egyptian sojourn in Book Ten, during which Lucan's two main characters are each shown attempting to take refuge from the poem's ubiquitous violence through the double avenue of travel to Egypt (to which the defeated Pompey flees, and where his pursuer Caesar hopes to leave the civil war behind) and the practice of natural science (with Pompey's astronomical inquiry and Caesar's investigation of the Nile). In this context, I have also considered Cato's Libyan adventures, from the intervening Book Nine. Both Pompey and Caesar discover that escape through either method is impossible, for the fabled Egyptian Shangri-La is now embroiled in the political, social, and economic crisis of the outside world, while not only the natural universe but even the very act of inquiry into nature are alike contaminated by the ethos of civil war. The virtuous Cato, on the other hand, does not even make the attempt, maintaining a single-minded focus on his civic duties. By revealing such escape to be both immoral (through Cato's example) and impossible (through the examples of Pompey and Caesar), Lucan signals his decisive rejection of the escapist predilections of many of his contemporaries (including his uncle Seneca and his own father Annaeus Mela), who tried to distance themselves from the vicissitudes of political life under the later Julio-Claudians through retirement into a state of philosophical otium.

This dissertation seeks to demonstrate Lucan's profound engagement and conflict with two ancient intellectual and literary traditions that can both be regarded as escapist, that is, as promising or postulating a sanctuary (whether physical or spiritual) from the world's troubles, and that were both active in Lucan's own day: utopian writing about science, exemplified in Latin by Lucan's uncle Seneca the Younger, as well as by the astronomical poet Manilius, and utopian Egyptology, as reflected in a wide variety of texts ranging from Herodotus, through Diodorus Siculus, to Lucan's contemporary, the Alexandrian polymath Chaeremon. To this end, I have examined two closely related sequences in the De Bello Civili that have received little attention from scholars of Lucan, namely Pompey's journey to Egypt in Book Eight and Caesar's Egyptian sojourn in Book Ten, during which Lucan's two main characters are each shown attempting to take refuge from the poem's ubiquitous violence through the double avenue of travel to Egypt (to which the defeated Pompey flees, and where his pursuer Caesar hopes to leave the civil war behind) and the practice of natural science (with Pompey's astronomical inquiry and Caesar's investigation of the Nile). In this context, I have also considered Cato's Libyan adventures, from the intervening Book Nine. Both Pompey and Caesar discover that escape through either method is impossible, for the fabled Egyptian Shangri-La is now embroiled in the political, social, and economic crisis of the outside world, while not only the natural universe but even the very act of inquiry into nature are alike contaminated by the ethos of civil war. The virtuous Cato, on the other hand, does not even make the attempt, maintaining a single-minded focus on his civic duties. By revealing such escape to be both immoral (through Cato's example) and impossible (through the examples of Pompey and Caesar), Lucan signals his decisive rejection of the escapist predilections of many of his contemporaries (including his uncle Seneca and his own father Annaeus Mela), who tried to distance themselves from the vicissitudes of political life under the later Julio-Claudians through retirement into a state of philosophical otium.

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In this thesis, Seneca&rsquo / s notion of self as self-love and the problem of self-deception are analyzed. In examining three types of self-love, &ndash / ignorant, progressing selves,&ndash / three models of self-deception are discussed. Self-deception is related to the problem of self-knowledge. I discuss the nature of self-love as self-esteem and self-preservation and self-shaping all of which are innate qualities and develop into more complex forms of knowing. Passions are concrete examples of the representations of deceived self / central to the overestimation of indifferents, the deceived self displays a pattern of reasoning that creates a paradox between what the self intends to do and what it actually appears or what the self wants to see himself as and what it actually is. In discussing various types of self-deception, it is argued that problem of deception can hardly be overcome practically even by education, although it is naturally possible. While the ignorant deceive themselves beyond their recognition, in the case of the educated selves, the tension between the knowledge of ignorance and the desire to be the person play an important role in self-deception. No one except the sage is free from self-deception. The thesis deals with the issue of self-knowing as a scarce possibility.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Duquesne University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-128) and index.

Zugl.: Köln, Dt. Sporthochsch., Diss., 2007