Leonardo Costantini
@lcostantini89.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. Interested in manuscripts, literature, movies and (good) TV-series. Opinions are my own.
Tell you what, both Roofman (an excellent drama, despite the silly poster) and The Smashing Machine should also be on everyone's watch-list. These films won't not save cinemas, esp. in a disastrous box office year like 2025, but they show that movies are alive and kicking.
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tell you what, both Roofman (an excellent drama, despite the silly poster) and The Smashing Machine should also be on everyone's watch-list. These films won't not save cinemas, esp. in a disastrous box office year like 2025, but they show that movies are alive and kicking.
If you enjoyed The Ballad of Wallis Island, then maybe Good Fortune is worth a try. Keanu Reeves does a pretty bad Johnny Depp impression throughout, and the finale is weak, but I'd still recommend it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you enjoyed The Ballad of Wallis Island, then maybe Good Fortune is worth a try. Keanu Reeves does a pretty bad Johnny Depp impression throughout, and the finale is weak, but I'd still recommend it.
If you liked, as I did, The Baltimorons, then chances are you're really going to enjoy The Ballad of Wallis Island.
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you liked, as I did, The Baltimorons, then chances are you're really going to enjoy The Ballad of Wallis Island.
The Baltimorons is a truly lovely film. I wholeheartedly recommend it and wish more movies like this got made these days. Give it a chance, and you won't regret it.
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Baltimorons is a truly lovely film. I wholeheartedly recommend it and wish more movies like this got made these days. Give it a chance, and you won't regret it.
Just arrived!
September 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Just arrived!
Just arrived! Looking forward to reading it.
June 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Just arrived! Looking forward to reading it.
The Cicero Poeta conference was such a joy to organise and run, and I'm ever so grateful to our participants (online and in person) for the excellent papers and the thought-provoking discussion! www.altphil.uni-freiburg.de/termine/cice...
May 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Cicero Poeta conference was such a joy to organise and run, and I'm ever so grateful to our participants (online and in person) for the excellent papers and the thought-provoking discussion! www.altphil.uni-freiburg.de/termine/cice...
This Thursday, 16-17, Justin Stover will be giving the last CMS research seminar of the term and it will be on ‘Ennius in the Middle Ages’. All welcome!
December 10, 2024 at 8:43 AM
This Thursday, 16-17, Justin Stover will be giving the last CMS research seminar of the term and it will be on ‘Ennius in the Middle Ages’. All welcome!
Lukas Dorfbauer and I produced an editio princeps, which I’m delighted to see published in the latest issue of the Revue d'Histoire des Textes: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
November 10, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Lukas Dorfbauer and I produced an editio princeps, which I’m delighted to see published in the latest issue of the Revue d'Histoire des Textes: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
The first @bristolcms.bsky.social research seminar of this term will be given by Bill Duba, @fragmentarium.bsky.social, this Thursday, 16-17, and will be on 'Textual Criticism and Editorial Methodology: Coming to Terms with Medieval University Texts'. All welcome!
January 30, 2024 at 8:46 AM
The first @bristolcms.bsky.social research seminar of this term will be given by Bill Duba, @fragmentarium.bsky.social, this Thursday, 16-17, and will be on 'Textual Criticism and Editorial Methodology: Coming to Terms with Medieval University Texts'. All welcome!
I had a great time in Paris last week and hope to be back soon and spend some time at the BnF, among other places. My thanks to the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and to Anne-Florence Baroni and Lucie Cazes for organising such a splendid conference on Fronto!
December 5, 2023 at 7:23 PM
I had a great time in Paris last week and hope to be back soon and spend some time at the BnF, among other places. My thanks to the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and to Anne-Florence Baroni and Lucie Cazes for organising such a splendid conference on Fronto!
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Class. 44 (Northern Italy, s. X, annotated by Gerbert of Aurillac himself) is the earliest witness of Ps.-Quintilian’s Major Declamations. The text it preserves is often so mangled that we can only make sense of it thanks to later codices.
October 27, 2023 at 3:08 PM
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Class. 44 (Northern Italy, s. X, annotated by Gerbert of Aurillac himself) is the earliest witness of Ps.-Quintilian’s Major Declamations. The text it preserves is often so mangled that we can only make sense of it thanks to later codices.
An insightful passage from Seneca (Nat. 7.30.5): ‘The people of a future age will know much that is unknown to us; much is being kept for the generations to come after memory of us has faded away.’ (trans. Hine 2010); images below from Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Class. 1, fol. 44v.
October 6, 2023 at 5:01 PM
An insightful passage from Seneca (Nat. 7.30.5): ‘The people of a future age will know much that is unknown to us; much is being kept for the generations to come after memory of us has faded away.’ (trans. Hine 2010); images below from Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Class. 1, fol. 44v.
Munich, BSB Clm 18961 (Brittany, s. IX) preserves excerpts from theological and philosophical authors and it emanates from Alcuin’s own circle. After the excerpts from Seneca’s Naturalis Historia comes Apuleius (f.37v-38r), quoted according to Augustine’s De civitate Dei, followed by Boethius.
October 5, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Munich, BSB Clm 18961 (Brittany, s. IX) preserves excerpts from theological and philosophical authors and it emanates from Alcuin’s own circle. After the excerpts from Seneca’s Naturalis Historia comes Apuleius (f.37v-38r), quoted according to Augustine’s De civitate Dei, followed by Boethius.
A bit of gardening (before preparing the plants for overwintering) and running done between today and yesterday.
September 23, 2023 at 3:08 PM
A bit of gardening (before preparing the plants for overwintering) and running done between today and yesterday.