Epistole, Ecloghe, Questio: Dante’s Epistles and His Latin Works of the Last Years
An International Symposium; The Global Dante Project of New York
POSTPONED
Morning at NYU (Casa Italiana);
Afternoon at COLUMBIA (Italian Academy).
Directors: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) & Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia)
PRESENTED BY: New York University, Department of Italian Studies Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Medieval and Renaissance Center
IN COLLABORATION WITH: Columbia University, Department of Italian and Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM: Banca Intesa Sanpaolo
Conference Details
Morning Session (9 am – 12:30 pm)
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street
9:00 Opening Remarks
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean of Humanities, NYU
Alison Cornish, Chair, Department of Italian Studies, NYU
Stefano Albertini, Director, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NYU
Karl Appuhn, Director, Medieval and Renaissance Center, NYU
Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Dept. Italian Studies, NYU & The Global Dante Project of New York
9:15-11:00: Panel I
Chair: Susanna Barsella, Fordham U.
Claudia Villa, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Restauro e nuove datazioni delle Epistole di Dante
John Took, University of London The Text as Testimony
Gabriella Albanese, Università di Pisa Pastorale dantesca: le “Egloge” alla luce della filologia interpretativa e di una lettura autobiografica
11:00-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:30: Panel II
Chair: Julie Van Peteghem, CUNY
Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU “Veritatis amore...etiam odio falsitatis”, Science and Truth: A Transversal Reading of a Few Fragments of Dante’s Questio
Michele Rinaldi, Università della Campania “Non extra materiam naturalem”: For a Non-Fictional Interpretation of Dante’s Quaestio de aqua et terra
12:30-2:45: Break—The conference moves to Columbia
Afternoon Session (2:45 pm – 5:45 pm)
Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave (just south of 118th St)
2:45: Opening Remarks
David Freedberg, Director, Italian Academy, Columbia University
Teodolinda Barolini, Dept. of Italian, Columbia University & The Global Dante Project of New York
3:00-4:15: Panel III
Chair: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers U.
Luca Azzetta, Università di Firenze “Secondo che scrisse l’autore medesimo a messer Cane della Scala”, L’Epistola a Cangrande: amicizia, isolamento e autocoscienza di un poeta visionario
Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University “Utrum de passione in passionem possit anima transformari” (Ep. 3): Love and Compulsion between Epistola, Convivio, and Commedia
4:15-4:30: Coffee Break
4:30-5:45: Panel IV
Chair: Paola Ureni, CUNY
Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Ohio State U. A Member of No Flock: Revisiting (and Transcending) the decem vascula Debate
Paolo Pontari, Università di Pisa La datazione delle “Egloge” tra contesto storico e biografia dantesca
Morning Session (9:00am-12:30pm)
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 W. 12th St.
Afternoon Session (2:45pm-5:45pm)
The Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY 10027
(Just south of 118th Street)
