The Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame are pleased to announce the 2024 Workshops in Dante & Medieval and Early Modern Italian Studies to be held on May 22-24 at Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway.
Organized by Laura Banella, Zygmunt G. Barański, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., and Francesco Feriozzi, the primary purpose of the workshops is to create a space where scholars can meet and discuss their research and ideas in a supportive and collegial atmosphere.
Schedule
May 22
Constructing Cultural Authority and 'Canonicity' in the Italian Literary Sphere (1300-1600)
Chair: Heather Webb (Cambridge)
3:00-4:30PM - Session 1
Introduction: Laura Banella (Notre Dame), Francesco Feriozzi (Notre Dame)
Abigail Brundin (Cambridge-British School in Rome), Vittoria Colonna: Purity as Poetic Authority
Kenneth Clarke (York), Interpolation and/as Interpretation in the Early Manuscript Tradition of Dante’s Commedia
4:30-5:00PM - Break
5:00-7:00PM - Session 2
Laura Banella (Notre Dame), Performing Another Self: Annotating the Lyric and the Displacement of the Author
Bernhard Huss (FU Berlin), Hans Robert Boccaccio ovvero Rezeptionsästhetik ante litteram
Francesco Giusti (Oxford), Premodern Digital: Creative Cannibalism and Dispersed Authorship
May 23
The Dante Canon (1300-1600)
Chair: Zygmunt Barański (Notre Dame - Cambridge)
9:30AM-11:00PM - Session 1
Alessio Decaria (Genova), Leggere, scrivere, stampare le rime di Dante a Firenze nel primo Cinquecento. Intorno alla Giuntina di rime antiche
Alessia Carrai (Padova), Dal Paradiso alle Egloghe: Il Parnaso di Dante e la prima ricezione trecentesca
11:00-11:30AM - Break
11:30AM-1:00PM - Session 2
Francesco Feriozzi (Notre Dame), Ierocrazia e umanesimo: note trecentesche alla Monarchia
Paolo Chiesa (Milano), Una nuova traccia della Monarchia a Milano nella prima metà del Trecento?
Dante: Works in progress
The following workshops will be open to invited speakers and discussants only.
2:30-3:30PM - Session 1
Catherine Keen (London), Dante’s Miracle of Beatrice: Reliquary Poetics in the Vita nova
Mattia Boccuti (Notre Dame), “Pro Beatrice” and “Adversus Beatricem”: Dante and Beatrice between the Poetic Correspondence with Cino and the Convivio
Roberto Rea (Tor Vergata), Testi di incerta attribuzione nella lirica italiana del Duecento. Metodi, pratiche e strumenti di filologia attributiva
3:30-4:00PM - Break
4:00-5:30PM - Discussion
May 24
9:30-10:30AM - Session 2
Simon Gilson (Oxford), Dante and Natural Philosophy, with Some Notes on Albert the Great
Giulia Gaimari (Toronto), The Politics of Tolerance in Dante’s Limbo
Filippo Gianferrari (Santa Cruz), Dante’s Political Eschatology: Resurrecting the Social Body in Paradiso
10:30-11:00 - Break
11:00AM-12:30PM - Discussion
2:00-3:00 - Session 3
Gabriella Albanese (Pisa), La poesia latina di Dante alla prova della filologia e della linguistica
Elisa Bisson (Notre Dame), Diagrams as Visual Commentary: An Encyclopedic Approach to the Comedy in the Early Florentine Commentaries
Gaia Tomazzoli (Sapienza), Language and Style of Dante’s Commedia According to its First Readers: The Case of Boccaccio
3:00-4:00PM - Break
4:00-5:30PM - Discussion
Albanese; Bisson; Boccuti; Gaimari; Gianferrari; Gilson; Keen; Rea; Tomazzoli
Discussants
Zyg Barański (Cambridge-Notre Dame); Ted Cachey (Notre Dame); Lachlan Hughes (Oxford); Giuseppe Ledda (Bologna); Luca Lombardo (Bergamo); Luca Marcozzi (Roma III); Mira Mocan (Roma III); Rino Modonutti (Padova); Paola Nasti (Northwestern); Anna Pegoretti (Roma III); Ryan Pepin (York); Ester Pietrobon (Padova); Annarita Placella (Roma Tre); Chiara Sbordoni (Notre Dame); Katie Sparrow (Notre Dame); Heather Webb (Cambridge); Veronica Albi (Roma Tre); Bernhard Huss (Berlin); Abigail Brundin (Cambridge-British School in Rome); Kenneth P. Clarke (York); Francesco Giusti (Oxford); Laura Banella (Notre Dame); Alessio Decaria (Genova); Paolo Chiesa (Milano); Alessia Carrai Padova); Francesco Feriozzi (Notre Dame)