“quamque sacra canit sophia libris”
(Konrad Celtis, Odes, I, 7 Ad Philippum Calimachum)

UT SOPHIA POESIS, or ‘ut philosophia poesis’ is an easy wordplay on a very famous formula that expresses Horace's poetics (Ad Pis. 361). This group library contains materials related to a very loose project on philosophical poetry, and, more in general, on the historical diversity of philosophical writing.

Philosophical poetry is indeed a curious kind of stuff. Sometimes poets do philosophy: “et Poetarum dicta pleraque habita sunt pro oraculis” (Pontano, De sermone, in De sermone et de bello Neapolitano, c. c2 r.). Sometimes philosophers write poetry. In this intersection lies our subject.