Prof. 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.

