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Immortal Mortality: Erasmus, Terminus and the Two Missing Skulls

Data publikacji: 06.12.2024

Terminus, 2024, Tom 26, zeszyt 2 (71) 2024, s. 125 - 140

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843844TE.24.009.20386

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Gábor Petneházi
Universität Innsbruck
, Niemcy
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Immortal Mortality: Erasmus, Terminus and the Two Missing Skulls

Abstrakt

From the 1510s onwards, Desiderius Erasmus adopted the image of the Roman god Terminus, together with the motto “concedo nulli” (I yield to none) as his private emblem, which became part of his consciously shaped self-representation. According to Erasmus’ own explanation, Terminus served as a symbol of mortality, but since he was a master of ambiguity, it could also have symbolised immortality for him. The article aims to unravel Erasmus’ true relationship to this particular emblem, which ironically seems to have endured even beyond his death. In order to uncover this, it will build on selected texts from Erasmus’ oeuvre, several of his personal belongings, as well as the well known engravings of him made by Dürer and Holbein.

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Informacje: Terminus, 2024, Tom 26, zeszyt 2 (71) 2024, s. 125 - 140

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

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Publikacja: 06.12.2024

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Licencja: CC BY  ikona licencji

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Gábor Petneházi – postdoc researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Institute for Classical Philology and Neo- Latin Studies. His research interests include early modern historiography, humanism and Republic of Letters, as well as early modern politics and intellectual history. His most recent publications include articles on early modern Neo-Latin historiography in Hungary (“A bolygó humanista. Gian Michele Bruto Erdélybe érkezésének előtörténete”, Convivia Neolatina Hungarica 5 (2023); “Ut tantus thesaurus ex tenebris in lucem hominum prodeat. ‘Szamosközy István és a Rerum Ungaricarum libri’”, in Certamen X. Előadások a Magyar Tudomány Napján az Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület I. Szakosztályában, ed. by E. Emese et al., 2023) as well as translations of the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam.

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Immortal Mortality: Erasmus, Terminus and the Two Missing Skulls