Quelques aspects du style de Joseph Simon Assémani dans les <i>Préfaces </i>de la <i>Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana</i>Orientalia Christiana PeriodicaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DUN4TNJQ/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MireilleIssaQuelques aspects du style de Joseph Simon Assémani dans les <i>Préfaces </i>de la <i>Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana</i>http://syriaca.org/cbss/DUN4TNJQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/DUN4TNJQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/DUN4TNJQOrientalia Christiana Periodica88:12022151-168The <i>Præfatio totius operis</i> of the <i>Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana</i> by Joseph Simon Assemani provides a rich literary material to which a linguistic approach should be applied. Based on the Latin rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian, this article aims to show that Assemani expresses himself in a classical style which reflects the influence of the Greek and Latin heritage, and develops a humanist culture loyal to Homer, Plato, Ovid, Cicero, Horace and other classical authors. The sentence of the Maronite bibliographer is similar to the traditional Latin sentence. His language aspires to a level of elegance suitable to the eminence of the pontifical personalities, by the use of a grandiloquence appropriate to the epistolary art of the Holy See. The scriptor gives preference to certain stereotypes, such as the Christian imagery of the tree, precious to the Apostle Paul and Saint Augustine, to glorify the action of God; or the polemical metaphors of heresy, when he intends to denounce the heterodoxies.
Issa, Mireille. “Quelques Aspects Du Style de Joseph Simon Assémani Dans Les Préfaces de La Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 88:1 (2022): 151–68.
Mireille Issa, Quelques Aspects Du Style de Joseph Simon Assémani Dans Les Préfaces de La Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 88:1 (2022): 151–68.AssemaniMaronitesVII-XVIII CEXVIII CEpreface