Arts and humanities
Élodie Oriol, lecturer in modern history at Paris 8, interviewed students about her book " Vivre de la musique à Rome au XVIIIe siècle " (Living from music in 18th-century Rome).
Devoted to the study of musical professions in eighteenth-century Rome, the book takes a social history perspective. It offers the reader a panorama of the places and institutions associated with the practice of music, from chapels to theaters, aristocratic palaces and public squares.
"Master class" through his latest book Moines, saints et hérétiques en Éthiopie médiévale. École française de Rome, 2023.
This book seeks to understand both the paradoxical expansion of the first Eustathian communities and the meanings of heterodoxy in medieval Ethiopian society.
His research focuses on post-romantic music and the relationship between music and cinema. You'll discover collaborations between composers and directors in his latest collective work: Compositeurs et réalisateurs en duo - Dix-sept études musico-filmiques. Edited by Cécile Carayol and Jérôme Rossi.
Gianpaolo Urso presented his book Catilina le faux populiste in an interview with history students.
The image of a "subversive" Catilina, as supported by Cicero, only became canonical after Sallustus. At first, another image was opposed to it: a minority, no doubt, but well attested, and vigorously taken up by Marc Antony in his attacks on Cicero in the autumn of 44.
