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Si discute del primo Ricettario di Giovanni Meli come documento della cultura scientifica sette / ottocentesca a Palermo, esaminando anche questioni filologiche sul latino scientifico del tempo, che avranno importanza per i fini ecdotici.

Saggio introduttivo, traduzione e commento degli Adelphoe di Terenzio Introductory essay, translation and commentary of Terence's Adelphoe

Analisi della voce skalmos (σκαλμός, ὁ).

Analisi della voce baris (βᾶρις, ἡ).

Recensione del volume di Maria Giovanna Sandri, che raccoglie i superstiti trattati greci su barbarismo e solecismo.

Recensione dell'edizione critica dei Menaechmi a cura di Giorgia Bandini

Publication of the first volume of Giovanni Meli's medical recipe book kept at the Municipal Library of Palermo. Their author (1740-1815) was a multifaceted intellectual: a famous poet, but also an eclectic philosopher, doctor and first professor of Chemistry at the University of Palermo.

In fr. I R.3 (Afranius’ Abducta) we can recognise an imagery connected to the rhetorical-philosophical Stoic tradition. Indeed, the adjective senticosus introduces the metaphor of thorns, a stylistic device associated with the Stoic sermo. This interpretation seems to be confirmed by Apuleius’ use of this adjective in Florida 18, which contains the famous ‘sophism of Protagoras’.

The couplet vv. 177-178 of her. 20 is particularly problematic. In this paper I retrace the various attempts to amend the couplet and propose a solution: to recover the long-ignored Palmer’s conjecture based on the Greek translation of Maximus Planudes. For the first time, Palmer’s conjecture on v. 178 is joined with Thompson’s proposal to accept the reading of ms. H (13th century) for the v. 177. The proof that the text obtained from Planudes’ translation is the authentic one allows us to consider worthy of esteem, at least for this last part of the Heroides, the lost Latin ms. from which Planudes translated, although the overall value of Planudes’ translation for the reconstruction of Ovid’s text is still a matter of debate.