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Barocci Ritrovato. Il restauro del Martirio di San Sebastiano, 2020
Marzo 1982: sull’onda del successo della mostra bolognese curata da Andrea Emiliani che riporta a... more Marzo 1982: sull’onda del successo della mostra bolognese curata da Andrea Emiliani che riporta all’attenzione internazionale la figura del pittore Federico Barocci (1533-1612), ignoti si introducono nel Duomo di Urbino e asportano una porzione di tela dal capolavoro giovanile dell’artista, la pala d’altare del Martirio di San Sebastiano.
Trentacinque anni dopo, l’inaspettato ritrovamento del frammento rubato costituisce l’occasione per dedicare al dipinto un’accurata campagna diagnostica e di restauro. Partendo dai risultati di quest’ultima, i saggi raccolti nel volume indagano l’ancora oscuro periodo della formazione di Barocci sotto il profilo storico-artistico, documentario e tecnico-preparatorio. Ne emerge un inedito ritratto del «giovane di grande aspettazione» Federico, intento a distillare, nel nuovo formato della pala d’altare di Controriforma, la lezione rinascimentale di Tiziano, Raffaello e Michelangelo ma anche quella, più inquieta, di Francesco Menzocchi, Battista Franco e Raffaellino del Colle. Un viaggio attraverso i modelli, i disegni e il corpo stesso del dipinto per ritrovare le origini dell’armoniosa pittura di Barocci.
Completano il testo tre saggi dedicati a Francesco Arcangeli, Andrea Emiliani, don Franco Negroni – le figure che più hanno contribuito alla conoscenza dell’artista e del suo straordinario Martirio.
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Papers by Francesco Busti
MAIA, 2022
When Lucretius invokes Calliope as his dux at the end of the proem to Book VI (92-95), the echo o... more When Lucretius invokes Calliope as his dux at the end of the proem to Book VI (92-95), the echo of I 1 in VI 94 reinforces a more general correspondence between Calliope and Venus, whom Lucretius had invoked as his socia in the proem to Book I (24). This paper argues that the two goddesses share the same double identity, as they both represent a twofold aspect of the poem, namely the profound interdependence of form and content. This twofold aspect is cunningly embodied in an interlingual pun on Epicurus’ name, which makes him an ἐπίκουρος to his own philosophy.
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MAIA, 2020
When in Lucan. V Caesar sails from Brundisium and crosses the Adriatic, several intratextual refe... more When in Lucan. V Caesar sails from Brundisium and crosses the Adriatic, several intratextual references point to him crossing the Rubicon in Lucan. I: the two passages offer the same portrait of Caesar's behaviour as inherently divergent from that of his much-ballyhooed ancestor Aeneas. Paralleling Caesar's divergence from his bloodline, the Adriatic exhibits equally non-natural behaviour.
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STUDI DI MEMOFONTE Rivista on-line semestrale, 2019
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MAIA, 2019
When Pliny wrote his Panegyric, Trajan had already become son of a god following Nerva’s deificat... more When Pliny wrote his Panegyric, Trajan had already become son of a god following Nerva’s deification right after his death. This paper examines Pliny’s subtle strategy to have his reader think of another divine father of Trajan, ultimate origin of his power as an emperor and primary guarantor of his virtuous behaviour, Jupiter himself.
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Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 2019
This paper argues that Ronald Syme's reconstruction of the identity and life of Rufinus, addresse... more This paper argues that Ronald Syme's reconstruction of the identity and life of Rufinus, addressed in Ov. Pont. 1.3 and 3.4, depends on textual readings (duce... tuo at Pont. 3.4.64, uestrisque paratibus at Pont. 3.4.5) that are flawed. Particular attention is devoted to uastisque, that Nicolaas Heinsius reports as the alternative reading of a codex Combianus, but which is in fact not there, provided that Michael D. Reeve's identification of the manuscript with Ms. Douce 146 (Bodleian Library, Oxford) is correct.
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Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 2017
The first part of this paper argues that Orpheus' telling of Hyacinth's story in Ov. Met. 10, 162... more The first part of this paper argues that Orpheus' telling of Hyacinth's story in Ov. Met. 10, 162-219 is a reworking of his own personal grief for Eurydice, narrated by Ovid shortly before. The second part analyses the extant Hellenistic models for the Ovidian version of the myth.
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leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl, 2024
Queer theory offers original perspectives from which to revise theoretical framings of Classics a... more Queer theory offers original perspectives from which to revise theoretical framings of Classics as a discipline. In this post, LUCAS postdoc in Latin literature Francesco Busti reflects on the urgency of queering Classics amid the current surge in nationalist and anti-LGBTQIA+ stances across Europe.
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leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl, 2024
A Latin poem by one of Catullus’ fellow poets and the immigration policies adopted by Italy’s far... more A Latin poem by one of Catullus’ fellow poets and the immigration policies adopted by Italy’s far-right-led government share a similar perspective on non-European people. In this blog post, Francesco Busti reflects on Europe’s millennia-old exploitative attitudes towards the rest of the world.
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Barocci Ritrovato. Il restauro del Martirio di San Sebastiano, 2020
Marzo 1982: sull’onda del successo della mostra bolognese curata da Andrea Emiliani che riporta a... more Marzo 1982: sull’onda del successo della mostra bolognese curata da Andrea Emiliani che riporta all’attenzione internazionale la figura del pittore Federico Barocci (1533-1612), ignoti si introducono nel Duomo di Urbino e asportano una porzione di tela dal capolavoro giovanile dell’artista, la pala d’altare del Martirio di San Sebastiano.
Trentacinque anni dopo, l’inaspettato ritrovamento del frammento rubato costituisce l’occasione per dedicare al dipinto un’accurata campagna diagnostica e di restauro. Partendo dai risultati di quest’ultima, i saggi raccolti nel volume indagano l’ancora oscuro periodo della formazione di Barocci sotto il profilo storico-artistico, documentario e tecnico-preparatorio. Ne emerge un inedito ritratto del «giovane di grande aspettazione» Federico, intento a distillare, nel nuovo formato della pala d’altare di Controriforma, la lezione rinascimentale di Tiziano, Raffaello e Michelangelo ma anche quella, più inquieta, di Francesco Menzocchi, Battista Franco e Raffaellino del Colle. Un viaggio attraverso i modelli, i disegni e il corpo stesso del dipinto per ritrovare le origini dell’armoniosa pittura di Barocci.
Completano il testo tre saggi dedicati a Francesco Arcangeli, Andrea Emiliani, don Franco Negroni – le figure che più hanno contribuito alla conoscenza dell’artista e del suo straordinario Martirio.
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MAIA, 2022
When Lucretius invokes Calliope as his dux at the end of the proem to Book VI (92-95), the echo o... more When Lucretius invokes Calliope as his dux at the end of the proem to Book VI (92-95), the echo of I 1 in VI 94 reinforces a more general correspondence between Calliope and Venus, whom Lucretius had invoked as his socia in the proem to Book I (24). This paper argues that the two goddesses share the same double identity, as they both represent a twofold aspect of the poem, namely the profound interdependence of form and content. This twofold aspect is cunningly embodied in an interlingual pun on Epicurus’ name, which makes him an ἐπίκουρος to his own philosophy.
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MAIA, 2020
When in Lucan. V Caesar sails from Brundisium and crosses the Adriatic, several intratextual refe... more When in Lucan. V Caesar sails from Brundisium and crosses the Adriatic, several intratextual references point to him crossing the Rubicon in Lucan. I: the two passages offer the same portrait of Caesar's behaviour as inherently divergent from that of his much-ballyhooed ancestor Aeneas. Paralleling Caesar's divergence from his bloodline, the Adriatic exhibits equally non-natural behaviour.
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STUDI DI MEMOFONTE Rivista on-line semestrale, 2019
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MAIA, 2019
When Pliny wrote his Panegyric, Trajan had already become son of a god following Nerva’s deificat... more When Pliny wrote his Panegyric, Trajan had already become son of a god following Nerva’s deification right after his death. This paper examines Pliny’s subtle strategy to have his reader think of another divine father of Trajan, ultimate origin of his power as an emperor and primary guarantor of his virtuous behaviour, Jupiter himself.
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Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 2019
This paper argues that Ronald Syme's reconstruction of the identity and life of Rufinus, addresse... more This paper argues that Ronald Syme's reconstruction of the identity and life of Rufinus, addressed in Ov. Pont. 1.3 and 3.4, depends on textual readings (duce... tuo at Pont. 3.4.64, uestrisque paratibus at Pont. 3.4.5) that are flawed. Particular attention is devoted to uastisque, that Nicolaas Heinsius reports as the alternative reading of a codex Combianus, but which is in fact not there, provided that Michael D. Reeve's identification of the manuscript with Ms. Douce 146 (Bodleian Library, Oxford) is correct.
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Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 2017
The first part of this paper argues that Orpheus' telling of Hyacinth's story in Ov. Met. 10, 162... more The first part of this paper argues that Orpheus' telling of Hyacinth's story in Ov. Met. 10, 162-219 is a reworking of his own personal grief for Eurydice, narrated by Ovid shortly before. The second part analyses the extant Hellenistic models for the Ovidian version of the myth.
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leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl, 2024
Queer theory offers original perspectives from which to revise theoretical framings of Classics a... more Queer theory offers original perspectives from which to revise theoretical framings of Classics as a discipline. In this post, LUCAS postdoc in Latin literature Francesco Busti reflects on the urgency of queering Classics amid the current surge in nationalist and anti-LGBTQIA+ stances across Europe.
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leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl, 2024
A Latin poem by one of Catullus’ fellow poets and the immigration policies adopted by Italy’s far... more A Latin poem by one of Catullus’ fellow poets and the immigration policies adopted by Italy’s far-right-led government share a similar perspective on non-European people. In this blog post, Francesco Busti reflects on Europe’s millennia-old exploitative attitudes towards the rest of the world.
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