The Froben Publishing House and Roman History in Renaissance Basel

All Souls College, Oxford, 3–4 September 2026

THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER, HOVENDEN ROOM

From 11.00 Tea, coffee and biscuits
11.15–11.30 Welcome and Introduction: Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) and Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle (Universität Basel)
11.30–13.00 Session 1: The Press under Johannes Froben (Chair: Mark Vessey, University of Edinburgh):

• 11.30–12.00 Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University) Organizing Antiquity: Johannes Froben, Erasmus, and the Froben Publishing House
• 12.00–12.30 Caterina Furlan (Technische Universität Dresden) Framing History: The Visual Construction of the Past in the Holbein Brothers' Title Pages
• 12.30–13.00 Justin Stover (University of Edinburgh) The 1518 Historia Augusta

13.00–14.00 Lunch, Wharton Room
14.00–16.10 Session 2: Beatus Rhenanus (Chair, Agnese Bargagna, University of Edinburgh)

• 14.00–14.30 Gennaro Celato (Università della Campania L. Vanvitelli) Beatus Rhenanus and the Collation of the Codex Murbacensis of Velleius Paterculus
• 14.30–15.20 Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) Beatus Rhenanus, Sigismundus Gelenius, and the Text of Ammianus Marcellinus
• 15.20–16.10 James Hirstein (Université de Strasbourg) The Development of Beatus Rhenanus' Elenchus on Tacitus: Rhenanus' and Froben's Creation of Readers' Helps

16.10–16.40 Tea, coffee and biscuits, Wharton Room

16.40–18.30 Session 3: Editions and Translations of Greek Texts (Chair: Maria Stefania Montecalvo, Università degli studi di Foggia)

• 16.40–17.30 Andreas Ammann (Universität Bern) Froben Editions of Josephus: Manuscript Sources, Editorial Principles, and Translation Techniques
• 17.30–18.00 Filippo Mardente (Bibliothèque nationale de France) The Froben Edition of the Suda and a Binding of Charles V
• 18.00–18.30 Olivia Montepaone (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II) Celio Secondo Curione: Heterodox Pedagogy and Roman History in Sixteenth-Century Basel

19.00 for 19.30 Drinks, dinner and dessert for speakers and invited Chairs, Wharton Room

FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER, HOVENDEN ROOM

9.20–10.40 Session 4: The Editio Princeps of Livy's Fifth Decade (Chair: George Woudhuysen, University of Nottingham)

• 9.20–10.00 Daniela Marrone (Università degli studi di Padova) The Editorial Genesis of Livy's Fifth Decade: From the Discovery of the Lorsch Manuscript to the Basel 1531 edition
• 10.00–10.40 Domenico Graziano (Universität Innsbruck) Dedicatory Politics: Melanchthon, Grynaeus, and Erasmus Behind the Scenes of the 1531 Froben Livy

10.40–11.30 Viewing of Froben publications (All Souls College Library) followed by tea, coffee and pastries, Wharton Room

11.30–12.50 Session 5: Paratexts and Supplements (Chair: Henry Woudhuysen, University of Oxford)

• 11.30–12.00 Ann M. Blair (Harvard University) Paratexts in Froben Editions of Roman History
• 12.00–12.50 Leah Whittington (Harvard University) Continuous History: Hieronymus Froben and Kosselleck

12.50–13.00 Concluding remarks
13.00–14.00 Lunch, Wharton Room

Conference organisers: Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), Veronica Fiscella (Edinburgh), George Woudhuysen (University of Nottingham / All Souls College, Oxford). Those interested in attending are asked to contact Gavin Kelly (Gavin.Kelly@ed.ac.uk) or Veronica Fiscella (vfiscell@ed.ac.uk). The conference is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant, The Last Historians of Rome (Universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham), Grant no. AH/Z505936/1.