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Petrus Berchorius (Pierre Bersuire) worked at the papal court in Avignon from 1342-48 and later in Paris (from 1348-60). A friend of Petrarch, he is perhaps best know for his allegorical treatment of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Moralized Ovid. Bersuire, however, was also heavily involved in translating into French Livy’s history of Rome. To commemorate the publication of the Moralized Ovid in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies is hosting a two-day seminar in which we shall investigate various aspects of Bersuire’s scholarship. The four speakers, Marek Thue Kretschmer, Pablo Yague, David Hult, and Frank Coulson have all published extensively on Bersuire. Coulson and Yague have recently brought out new editions and translations of the Moralized Ovid, and Kretschmer is at work on a critical edition of the Paris version of the work. Hult is completing work on Bersuire’s translation of Livy.
Schedule
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 / 2:00pm-5:00pm
Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University)
"Berlin, Phillipps 1812: A hitherto unstudied commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses"
William Little (The Ohio State University)
"A new set of allegories on Ovid's Metamorphoses"
Pablo Piqueras (Universidad de Murcia, The Ohio State University)
"The Ovidius moralizatus as a mythographical treatise"
Thursday, November 16, 2023 / 2:00pm-5:00pm
Marek T. Kretschmer (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet)
"On some characteristics of the A2 version of the Ovidius moralizatus"
Irene Salvo García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
"Bersuire in Spain (s. XV): a first approach"
David Hult (University of California, Berkeley)
"Bersuire as a translator of Livy: the stories of Virginia and Lucrecia"
