Projects
Francesco Filelfo's 'Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii' and the Rhetoric of early modern Consolation Literature. KU Leuven
When on the first of January 1461 Jacopo Antonio Marcello’s eight-year-old son Valerio died, prominent humanists produced consoling essays and poems for the boy’s father. The most important of these writings was Francesco Filelfo’s “Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii” (“Consolation of J.A. Marcello on the death of his son Valerio”), a consolation of more than 30,000 words, which combines portraits of and ...
Research of major lacunas in our knowledge of the early-modern rhetorical tradition KU Leuven
In conclusion, this project may be expected to produce an innovative interpretation of fifteenth- and
sixteenth-century rhetorical theories, and philological and rhetorical practices. It will shed light on an
important chapter of the history of the classical tradition and its results will represent an invaluable
instrument for future research, yielding high impact on scholarship concerning disciplines ranging from
literary ...