International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

particular case, to the creation of the „French national 
prosa ornata
“ (M. Fumaroli), on the one hand; 
and in terms of a tollerant attitude toward the literary plagiarism conceived as a sort of productive 
emulation, which dominated the humanistic scene well into the modern times, on the other hand.
For the purpose of concretizing the above-mentioned theoretical approach we will make 
use of comparison of the Vigenère ‘s text with the Latin translation of Chalcocondyles’s work 
by a Vigenère ‘s contemporary, Conrad Clauser; whereas on the account of submitting a wider 
picture of the contemporary Byzantine studies we will also take a look at the editions of several 
Byzantine historians published owing to the efforts of Hieronymus Wolf, keeping in mind that these 
two authors are not only associated by the relevant topics, but also by the common intellectual 
provenance personified by their teacher, the great German humanist Melanchthon, in capacity of 
„an originator of modern Byzantine scholarship“ (A. Pippidi) as well as a sagacious analyst of recent 
Ottoman conquests in Europe.
Finally, the present communication will hopefully show more clearly if and in what way the 
Vigenère’s rendering of Chalcocondyles’s text is consistent with the „fluent strategy“ (L. Venuti), i.e. 
the relative freedom, which generally characterizes the early Modern culture of translation.

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BYZANTIUM IN CHANGE. ART, ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIETY 
OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY – PART 1
Conveners:
 Jenny Albani
, 
Ioanna Christoforaki
Naomi Ruth Pitamber
, 
Loss, Memory, and Exile: Innovation and Simulation in Laskarid Art and Architecture
Myrto Veikou
, 
Literary Spaces and Human Agencies: The Area of Smyrna during the 13
th
Century