Paul Gwynne

Paul Gwynne is Associate Professor of Classics, and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies. His areas of interest include Latin (Language, Literature and Philology); Palaeography and Codicology; the Survival of the Classical Tradition: particularly Humanism in Renaissance Rome; Late Medieval and Renaissance Court Cultures; the Epic Tradition.

Contact: p.gwynne@aur.edu

Qualifications

• 2000-02 Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica: Diploma in Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica (Latina)
• 1984-90 Warburg Institute, University of London, Ph.D. (Combined Historical Studies)
  Thesis: The Life and Works of Johannes Nagonius, poeta laureatus, c.1450 ‑ c.1510
• 1982-83 University of York, MA (English Renaissance Poetry)
  Thesis: The Tournament in Spenser’s “Faerie Queene”
• 1978-81
  University of Reading, BA Hons (English with Latin)

Other

•  1999 University of Luton, Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Current Teaching Activities

• Latin Language (all levels) and Literature; Beginners’ Greek; Ancient History;
• The History of the Papacy
• Specializations: Latin Philology; Humanism (especially Rome); Late Medieval and Renaissance Court Cultures.

Past teaching Activities

• June 2011 ‘Translating the Past’ Postgraduate Seminar, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence Latin Philology
• 1998-9 Rome International University, Director of Studies (M.A. in the History of Art)
• 1993-7 The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome.  Lecturer: Renaissance History and Art History
• 1993-5 St Mary’s College, Rome Lecturer: Classical Mythology

Content for the tab Research

Books

Poets and Princes: the Panegyric Poetry of Johannes Michael Nagonius, ‘Medieval and Renaissance Court Cultures 1, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012)

Forthcoming:

Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome: Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Soldier, Prelate, (2013).

Francesco Benci: Quinque Martyres, Text, Translation, Commentary.

‘Arms and the Men’ Fifteenth-Century Neo-Latin Epic.

In Preparation:

Two Neo-Latin Epyllia for Henry VII

Artists, Poets and Soldiers: the Patronage of Cesare Borgia.

Pinturicchio and the Humanists: Six Essays

Chapters in Books

‘Epic’ in Cambridge Guide to Reading Neo-Latin Literature, ed. Victoria Moul, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Descriptio Publicae Gratulationis Speculorum et Ludorum in Adventu Serenissimi Principis Ernesti Austricae Archiducis, (Antwerp 1595), in Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe, ed R. Mulryne et al., Ashgate 2004, 1, pp. 496-571.

Art: the Whole Story Four Chapters: Early Italian Art; Early Renaissance; High Renaissance; Venetian Renaissance, (London: Thames and Hudson, 2010)

501 Great Writers Seven Entries: Virgil; Horace; Apuleius; St Augustine; Erasmus; Ariosto; Spenser (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2008)

Articles

‘Nagonius’ Repertorium Pomponianum, on-line database, May 2010.

‘A new contribution to the biography of Leonardo da Vinci’, Burlington Magazine, CLI (August, 2009), p. 543.

Contributions to the Neo-Latin Anthology, on-line database Cambridge University Press 2009.

‘”Tu Alter Caesar Eris”: Maximilian I, Vladislav II, Johannes Michael Nagonius and the Renovatio Imperii’, Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies, 10 (1996), pp. 56-71.

‘A Renaissance Image of Jupiter Stator’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 58 (1995), pp. 249-52.

‘The Source for an Illuminated Frontispiece of a Panegyric for Henry VII’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 55 (1992), pp. 266‑70.

At press:

‘Cicero,  Horace, Piacentini and architecture parlante. Memory and Identity in Fascist Epigraphy’.

Reviews

Chiara Cassiani, ’Roma fra Fabula e Historia’, Renaissance Quarterly, 2010.

Brian Curran, ‘The Egyptian Renaissance. The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy’, in Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians, 2009.

‘”Tecnologia in Figura”: Manuscript Research in Italy’, in Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies, 10 (1996).

Philip Jacks, ‘The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought’, in Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies, 9 (1995): 299-301.

Philip Jacks, ‘The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought’, in Roma nel Rinascimento, 7 (1994): 182-5.

Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, by J.W. Binns, in Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, 7, no. 2, (1991): 28‑32.

Museum Secrets: Vatican Museums, Canadian TV, January 2011 Cleopatra, National Geographic, Autumn 2009.

Can be seen and heard reading his own Latin poetry at Inter Versiculos website.