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Why do Helvétius' writings matter? Rousseau's Notes sur De l'esprit
2016
International audience; De l’esprit was read and commented on by Rousseau, Diderot, and Voltaire, in 1758. So was De l’homme when it appeared posthumously in 1773. We will go into this series of books, marginalia, and refutations, to address the question: what exactly was widely discussed between the three authors during the 1750s? Is it ‘materialism’? Our first point is to interpret the potential distortions, re-workings or re-appropriations in Rousseau’s marginalia, known as Notes sur De l’esprit, especially here about the so-called theory of passive judgement. We will then see that there certainly is, in the discussion between Rousseau and Helvétius, a real opposition on the question of…
Las huellas de los lectores: de vuelta a los libros de caballerías anotados
2018
Este trabajo tiene el doble objetivo de enriquecer el censo de los libros de caballerías anotados y revitalizar el estudio de los marginalia en cuanto fuente primaria para diferentes acercamientos críticos al género. Del cuadro esbozado emergen resultados que refuerzan las conclusiones de la bibliografía que se ha ocupado del tema, añadiendo un marcado acento sobre el alcance internacional del género, cuyos lectores-anotadores eran, en una relevante medida, extranjeros.
Ancora sul divieto giustinianeo di commentarii al Digesto
2020
Through some additional arguments, the author confirms his previous interpretation that the Justinian’s ban on commentaries was established only for the Digest and was not specifically addressed to law teachers, but rather concerned the forensic use of the Digest; furthermore, starting from Scheltema’s idea that forbidden commentaries were marginal notes placed directly in the manuscripts, the author hypothesizes that the prohibition aimed at avoiding a writing practice attested in many fields during late Antiquity, i.e. the creation of ‘chaines’ (catenae) of marginalia, which collected different interpretations from other people’s commentaries: such a practice would have contrasted the pro…
« “Cette Legende auree est a moy”. Marginalia et appropriations de la Légende dorée dans le ms. Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 534 »
2012
International audience