Edited by Elisa Della Calce and Simone Mollea
CICERO Studies on Roman Thought and Its Reception
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.” Can a book really be dangerous? To take literally these words of Captain Beatty of Fahrenheit 451 one would say yes. Of course, even in this case, it is not the object book in and by itself to be regarded as dangerous, but its content. Yet in what terms is dangerousness to be conceived? Dangerous for whom? Dangerous when? Dangerous where? Dangerous why? It is sufficient to look for a general single answer to each of these questions to understand that the possible dangerousness of any one book involves several factors, starting with author(s) and recipient(s), time and place of the diffusion of a book, socio-political and religious constrictions. The papers of this volume throw further light on the dangers provoked by books as well as to the reactions to these dangers by focusing on Latin texts from antiquity to the Modern Age. Taken together, they broaden horizons by going beyond official notions of canons, expurgation, and book-burning, and leaving considerations of the notion of danger and the use of the Latin language as the only necessary criteria.
ISSN 2567-0158
ISBN 978-3-11-222582-0
ISBN 978-3-11-222583-7 (PDF)
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112225837
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025950792
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eBook published on:May 4, 2026eBook ISBN:9783112225837Hardcover published on:May 4, 2026Hardcover ISBN:9783112225820Front matter:11Main content:458Illustrations:3Frontmatter
IAcknowledgments
Front matter
VIIContents
IXIntroduction
1Part 1: History and Politics Relocating Cicero. Libri pericolosi alla corte di Augusto
9Existe-t-il, dans le récit livien, des indices d’auto-censure et certains livres de l’Ab Vrbe Condita revêtiraient-ils un caractère sulfureux ?
29La Germania most dangerous book da Tacito a Himmler: un approccio neuroscientifico
51«When in doubt, follow Tacitus»: Svetonio, autore pericoloso?
65Historiae Externae. The Aftermath of the Dangerous (?) Pompeius Trogus
85Part 2: Philosophy and Religion Pericoli epicurei. Il pericolo dell’Epicureismo per la società romana
111Cramps, Diarrhea, and Fevers. The Dangers of Reading in Seneca and Epictetus
125Il dare vita alle statue: un inaccettabile episodio di idolatria nell’Asclepius
141Scritture e canone nella stele cristiana di Xi’an e nello Zunjing
163Part 3: Pagan and Christian Poetry L’arte di amare (e di regnare): elegia erotica e modelli imperiali nell’Epitalamio di Claudiano per Onorio e Maria
189Quod suppressit uerecunde. Tracce di un Virgilio censore in Servio
219God’s True Colours. The Challenges of Late Antique Poikilia in Ausonius, Paulinus and Prudentius’ Divine Images
245The Vine and the Branches: Prudentius, the Circle of Symmachus, and the Survival of the Latin Classics
279Part 4: The Modern Age: the Jesuit World and Beyond Satira censurata. Le edizioni “moralizzate” di Orazio, Persio e Giovenale realizzate dai Gesuiti
309Non possunt sine mentula placere. Obscenity and Philology in the Collection ad usum Delphini
351Tradurre foedissima convicia: Pierre Poussines e l’Alessiade di Anna Comnena
375L’Anatomia ingeniorum (1615) di Antonio Zara nel dibattito sulla sede dell’anima nella prima età moderna: tra censura e pedagogia
403Dangerous Books Beyond Europe: the Case of Jesuit Texts Related to China
429Index locorum[ ]
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