• Die Ökonomie der Dichtung. Pietro Lazzaronis Lobgedicht an den Borgia-Papst Alexander VI. (1497). Hildesheim-Zürich-New York (Olms: Noctes Neolatinae), 2016 (518 pp.).

(reviewed by Lorenzo di Maggio, Seventeenth Century News 75 (2017), 52–54).

• Apotheosis of the North. The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800), edd. Bernd Roling – Stefan Bauhaus – Bernhard Schirg. Berlin-Boston (Walter de Gruyter: Transformationen der Antike), 2017.

• Economics of Poetry. Efficient techniques of producing Neo-Latin verse, edd. Paul Gwynne – Bernhard Schirg, Oxford et al. (Peter Lang: Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance) 2018 (forthcoming).
• Antiquarianism around the Baltic Sea and beyond, edd. Bernd Roling – Bernhard Schirg, Berlin-Boston (Walter de Gruyter: Transformationen der Antike), 2018 (forthcoming).

In preparation:

• Mario Equicola. Selected works, edited and translated by Bernhard Schirg, with an introduction and commentary by Ulrich Pfisterer and Bernhard Schirg. Cambridge (Mass.)-London (Harvard University Press: The I Tatti Renaissance Library), ca. 2018.

This volume for James Hankin's I Tatti-series will contain key texts by which the Italian humanist Mario Equicola (c. 1470–1525) shaped his profile as intellectual at the court of Isabella d'Este in Mantua. The volume will comprise Latin editions and English translations of exemplary texts by Equicola that permit deep insight into Italian humanist circles and court culture as well as the interaction of literature and patterns of patronage at Renaissance courts.

Texts will include:

• On women (De mulieribus, 1501): A treatise on famous women from antiquity that responds to a new self-awareness of women at Isabella's court.
• On opportunity (De opportunitate, 1507): A dialogue interpreting and intellectually enhancing the visual device (impresa) adopted by Isabella's brother, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este. This was recently revealed as an invention by Leonardo da Vinci (see my article "Decoding da Vinci's impresa"). Moreover, the dialogue constitutes an intriguing testimony of an early humanist theory of imprese and related symbolic devices.
• Neither by fear nor hope (Nec spe nec metu, 1506/1513): A dialogue in which Mantuan humanists sound out the eponymous motto adopted by Isabella d'Este and also used for the decoration of her famous studiolo. Originally dedicated to Isabella as a birthday present in 1506, the text was only printed in 1513, when it was modified and rededicated to gain the favour of the Florentine potentate Giuliano de' Medici.

Published and accepted articles:

1. (with Bernd Roling) "Introduction", in: Antiquarianism around the Baltic Sea 2018 (see "Herausgeberschaft") (forthcoming).
2. "The Northern Face of January. Narratives of early cultural history between Rome and their appropriation in the Swedish Empire (Janus, Saturn, Numa)", in: Antiquarianism around the Baltic Sea 2018 (see "Herausgeberschaft") (forthcoming).
3. "Cortese's ideal cardinal? Art, splendour and magnificence in Cardinal Bernardino de Carvajal’s (1456–1523) Roman residence", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 80 (2017), 61–82.
4. "Spamming the Council of Milan. Neo-Latin Poetry and the Quest for Patronage under Ludovico Sforza (1480–1499)", in: Economics of Poetry 2018 (see "Herausgeberschaft").
5. “Pietro Lazzaroni e il valore strategico dell’encomio”, in: Profili di umanisti bresciani. Seconda serie, ed. Carla Maria Monti. Travagliato-Brescia (Edizione Torre d‘Ercole), 2018 (forthcoming).
6. “L’eco del rebus. L’Accademia Pontaniana nel dialogo De opportunitate (1507) di Mario Equicola“, in: Dulcis alebat Parthenope. Memorie dell’antico, mito e territorio nella cultura dell’Accademia Pontaniana (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Napoli, 9–11 Ottobre 2014), edd. Giuseppe Germano - Marc Deramaix, Naples, 2018 (forthcoming).
7. "(Re)Writing the Early Biography of the Alhambra’s Fountain of Lions. New Evidence from a Neo-Latin Poem (1497)", Muqarnas. An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World 34 (2017), 259–271.
8. "The Daphnic fate of Camerarius. Olof Rudbeck the Younger's botanical dissertation (1686) revealed as Sweden's first printed emblem book", in: Emblems and the Natural World (1500–1700), edd. Karl A.E. Enenkel - Paul J. Smith, Leiden-Boston (Brill: Intersections), 2017, 227–270.
9. “Phoenix going bananas. The Swedish Appropriation of a Classical Myth, and its Demise in Botanical Scholarship (Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Linnaeus)”, in: Apotheosis of the North 2017 (see "Herausgeberschaft"), 17–46.
10. “Formare un poeta. Bernardino Bornato a Pavia e il modesto Fortleben letterario della poesia panegirica”, in: La lettura e i libri tra chiostro, scuola e biblioteca. Libri e lettori a Brescia tra Medioevo ed Età moderna (Atti della sesta giornata di studi “Libri e lettori a Brescia tra Medioevo ed Età moderna”, Brescia, 8 Maggio 2015), ed. Luca Rivali. Udine (Forum: Libri e biblioteche), 2017, 69–76.
11. “Decoding da Vinci’s impresa. Leonardo’s gift to cardinal Ippolito d’Este and Mario Equicola’s De opportunitate (1507)”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 78 (2015), 135–155.
12. (with Paul Gwynne) “‘The ‘Economics Of Poetry’. Fast Production as an Essential Skill in Neo-Latin Encomiastic Poetry”, Studi Rinascimentali 13 (2015), 11–32.
13. “Betting on the antipope. Giovambattista Cantalicio and his cycle of poems dedicated to the schismatic Cardinal Bernardino de Carvajal in 1511 (with an edition and translation from Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, ms. XVI A 1)“, SPOLIA. Journal of Medieval Studies 2015, 248–285.
14. “In bivio. Zur Lebenswegentscheidung als Motiv frühhumanistischer Selbstdarstellung bei Geri von Arezzo und Francesco Petrarca”, Studi Medievali 55 (2014), 299–340.

• Review “Bartholomaei Platynae. Vita amplissimi patris Ioannis Mellini, a cura di Maria Grazia Blasio, Roma (Edizione di Storia e Letteratura) 2014 (Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Umanistici), LXXVIII, 98 S., ISBN 9788863726091, € 22. ‑”, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 95 (2016), 577–578.
• Review "Paul Gwynne, Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome. Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Prelate, Soldier, Spy, Bern u. a. (Peter Lang) 2015 (Court cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance), 2 Bde., XXVII, 451 S.; XXVI, 704 S., Abb., ISBN 978-3-0343-1774-0; 978-3-0343-1875-4, € 80,30; 94,20.", Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 96 (2017) (forthcoming).
• Radio documentary on the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck the Elder (produced by Gabor Paal). See the preview (7min) aired 19 November 2016 as part of SWR2 Campus, and the full documentary (30min) aired on 7 December 2016 as part of SWR2 Wissen (also available as podcast).

Selected conferences and presentations (recent years and forthcoming)

1. "The continuity of mediaeval poetic traditions in the Italian Renaissance – a case study from Pavia", Workshop "Querelle(s) - poetologisch und epistemologisch", Freie Universität Berlin, 23–24 April 2018.
2. "Die moralischen Abgründe des fürstlichen Sekretärs. Liebesdichtung, Sex und Rufmord am Hofe von Isabella d'Este (1474-1539)", Research Colloquium, Institute of Latin Philology, Freie Universität Berlin, 21 December 2017.
3. "Mario Equicola’s Neither by hope nor fear (1506/1513) and the author’s fight for a white vest", Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, 18 September 2017.
4. "Convenient discoveries – Forgeries of manuscripts and artifacts in the service of the Swedish Empire (c. 1650–1720)", International Conference "Falsche Prinzessinnen, Scharlatane und selbsternannte Experten. Hochstapler in neuzeitlichen Gesellschaften", Gotha Research Centre, 10–12 July 2017.

5. "The Daphnic fate of Camerarius, or: Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s botanical dissertation (1686) revealed as Sweden’s first printed emblem book", Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, 15 December 2016.

6. "Die Verkürbissung des Joachim Camerarius (1534–1598) – Adaptationen des Emblembuchs in der schwedischen Botanik des 17. Jahrhunderts", Neo-Latin Colloquium, University of Münster, 2 November 2016.
7. "The Nordic Face of January". International conference "Baroque Antiquarianism and the search for identity around the Baltic Sea", Finland-Institute Berlin, 19–20 May 2016.
8. "Spamming the Council of Milan. Pietro Lazzaroni (c.1420–c.1497) spreading his poems to Lombardian patricians". International Conference “Economics of Poetry. Efficient techniques of producing neo-Latin verse“, The American University of Rome, 28–30 April 2016.
9. "Art and Magnificence in Giovambattista Cantalicio’s Poems to the Rebellious Cardinal Bernardino de Carvajal (1511)". 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, 31 March – 2 April 2016.
10. Organizer of the panel “Readers of the Lost Art. Neo-Latin Poetic Descriptions of Lost Renaissance Art“ (Speakers: Kathleen Christian, Paul Gwynne, Bernhard Schirg). 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, 31 March – 2 April 2016.
11. Acceptance speech for the SNLS Early-Career Essay Prize 2015. Annual Meeting of the the Society of Neo-Latin Studies, London, 27 November 2015.
12. “Il volto settentrionale di Giano. La fortuna di un mito da Giulio Romano al barocco svedese“. The Finnish Institute in Rome, Villa Lante al Gianicolo, Rome, 18 November 2015 (cf. L'osservatore italiano, 20 November 2015, p. 3).
13. “Visualising kairos. Leonardo da Vinci's rebus on opportunity and its interpretation in early Cinquecento humanism”. Workshop "The Opportune Moment and the Early Modern Theatre of Politics" organized by the Grasping Kairos Research Network, 12 November 2015, Birkbeck, University of London.
14. “Johann Daniel Major's emblematic reading of Olof Rudbeck's Atlantica, or: How to condense an unreadable book to fit on the royal coffee table.” University of Uppsala, 7 October 2015.
15. “Olof Rudbeck (1630–1702) and the Fate of Atlantis” (contribution to the session “Swedish Neo-Latin“). 16th International Congress of the International Association of Neo-Latin Studies, Vienna, 2–7 August 2015.
16. “Libri e lettori fra Brescia e Pavia. L’insegnamento universitario di Pietro Lazzaroni e la formazione di Bernardino Bornato”. Workshop “La lettura e i libri tra chiostro, scuola e biblioteca. Libri e lettori a Brescia tra Medioevo ed Età moderna”, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, 8 May 2015.
17. Organizer of the panel “The Economics of Encomia“ (Speakers: Florian Schaffenrath, Paul Gwynne, Nikolaus Thurn, Bernhard Schirg). 61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 26–28 March 2015.
18. Respondent to the panel “The Legacy of the Accademia Pontaniana to Naples and Europe” (org. Marc Deramaix). 61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 26–28 March 2015.
19. “Phoenix going Bananas. The Transformation of a Classical Myth in 18th Century Botanical Scholarship”. Workshop “Apotheosis of the North. The glorification of Sweden and Finland in Baroque culture”, Finland-Institute Berlin, 17–18 December 2014.
20. “Scherben einer Ehe. Pietro Lazzaroni’s Lobgedicht an Alexander VI. am Tiefpunkt der Beziehung zwischen Borgia und Sforza (1497)”. German Historical Institute, Rome, 5 November 2014.
21. “L’eco del rebus. L’Accademia Pontaniana nel dialogo De opportunitate (1507) di Mario Equicola”. Conference “Dulcis alebat Parthenope. Memorie dell’antico, mito e territorio nella cultura dell’Accademia Pontaniana”, Naples, 9 October 2014.

Hosted conferences

1. (with Bernd Roling and Stefan Bauhaus) “Baroque Antiquarianism and the search for identity around the Baltic Sea”. Finland-Institute Berlin, 19–20 May 2016.
2. (with Paul Gwynne) “Economics of Poetry. Efficient techniques of producing neo-Latin verse“. The American University of Rome, Rome, 28–30 April 2016 (for reports follow this link).
3. (with Bernd Roling and Stefan Bauhaus) “Apotheosis of the North. The glorification of Sweden and Finland in Baroque culture”. Finland-Institute Berlin, 17 December 2014.