Il Centro Cicogna all’incontro annuale RSA 2019 di Toronto

Il Centro Cicogna sarà presente all’incontro annuale della Renaissance Society of America che quest’anno si terrà a Toronto, Canada dal 17 al 19 marzo presso lo Sheraton Center

In particolare il Centro, coordinato dal professor Matteo Soranzo dell’università McGill, organizza una serie di tre panel

1.

The Serenissima and the Italian Wars: Culture, Society and the Arts

Domenica 17 marzo 2019, ore 9 – 10.30; Sheraton Centre Toronto, Chestnut West – Mezzanine

Chairs: Matteo Soranzo, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada e Giorgio Tagliaferro, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Forecasting Venice in 1494: Printers, Astrologers, and the Great Conjunction
Matteo Soranzo, McGill University, Canada

The Palm Sunday Procession in Venice, 1495
Matteo Casini, Suffolk University, Boston, MA

Venetia Rifigurata: The Female Political Icon during the War of the League of Cambrai
Chriscinda. C. Henry McGill University

2.

The Saint, the Witch: Women, Myth, and Devotion in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola

Domenica 17 marzo 2019, ore 16 – 17.30; Sheraton Centre Toronto, Yorkville West – 4th

Chairs: Matteo Soranzo, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Marco Piana, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada e Gabriella Bruna Zarri, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Celestial Light and Idalean Flames: Marian and Venusian Dualities in  Gianfrancesco Pico’s Poetry
Marco Piana, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Natural, Supernatural and Imaginary in Pico’s Feminine Ideal
Lucia Pappalardo, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

From Goddess to Crone: The Witch in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s Strix
Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

3.a

Hermeneutics of Sources in Renaissance Antiquarianism (I)

Lunedí 18 marzo 2019, ore 9:00 – 10:30; Sheraton Centre Toronto, Yorkville West – 4th

Chair: John Considine, University of Alberta

Post-antique Sources for the Ancient World
William Stenhouse, Yeshiva University

New Archaeological Finds in France, and their (mis)interpretation
Richard Cooper, Oxford University

Peiresc and Antiquarian Research: Some Implications
Peter Miller, Bard Graduate Center

 

3.b

Hermeneutics of Sources in Renaissance Antiquarianism (II)

Lunedí 18 marzo 2019, ore 11:00 – 12:30; Sheraton Centre Toronto, Yorkville West – 4th

Chair: Sara Olivia Miglietti, The Warburg Institute

Lexicography as Antiquarianism: Guarino and His Followers
W. Scott Blanchard, Misericordia University

Miscellaneity and the Antiquarian: Organization and Order in William Camden’s Manuscripts
Angus Vine, University of Stirling

Natural Philosophy between Ancient Sources and Empirical Investigation: Collectionism from Conrad Gessner to Daniel Sennert
Anja-Silvia Goeing, Harvard University – University of Zurich

 

III.c

Hermeneutics of Sources in Renaissance Antiquarianism (III)

Lunedí 18 marzo 2019, ore 14:00 – 15:30; Sheraton Centre Toronto, Yorkville West – 4th

Chair: Arne Flaten, Ball State University

The Origin and Development of Autopsia among Sixteenth Century Antiquarians
John Cunnally, Iowa State University

Antiquarianism and Engineering in Pirro Ligorio’s Project for the Cavallerie Ferraresi (Isola Beata 1569)
Ginette Vagenheim, University of Rouen

Ancient Artifacts as Historical Sources: The Case of the Accademia de l’architettura (1535–55)
Bernd U. Kulawik, SIK-ISEA Swiss Institute for Art Research

 

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Neolatin and its Uses

Il Centro Cicogna segnala la serie di seminari dal titolo Neolatin and its Uses Interdisciplinary Neolatin Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2016, organizzati presso il Corpus Christi College di Oxford dai Professori Stephen Harrison (letteratura latina, Fac. of Classics) e Paola Tomè (Marie Curie Fellow, Fac. of Med. and Mod. Lang.).

I seminari avranno luogo presso la Fraenkel Room del citato istituto nelle giornate del 13 e 20 ottobre, del 3, 10, 17 e 24 novembre nonché del 1 dicembre 2016 dalle ore 13 alle ore 14.15.

Il programma è il seguente:

OTTOBRE
13  Michael MALON LEE (Oxford): Ambrogio Traversari and networking among humanists in the 15th century
20  Stephen HARRISON (Oxford): Vergilian Divine Machinery in Thomas Campion’s De Pulverea Coniuratione /  Paola TOME’ (Oxford): Greek Studies in XVth Century Europe: webpage presentation

NOVEMBRE
Marta CELATI (Oxford): Humanist epic between classical legacy and contemporary history: Orazio Romano’s Porcaria (1453) / Paul BOTLEY (Warwick): The Letters of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614)
10  Giacomo COMIATI (Berlin): Latin Poems in the Italian Renaissance: Marcantonio Flaminio’s Carmina between Horace, Catullus, and Petrarch / Paola D’ANDREA: Reading Sannazzaro’s Poems
17  Caroline PETIT (Warwick): Reading medical texts: Symphorien Champier and Galen / Sheldon BRAMMALL (Oxford): Joachim Périon, Laurence Humphrey, and the Ciceronian Controversy in Translation Theory
24  Oren MARGOLIS (Oxford): Leonardo Bruni and the pontifex maximus /  Bobby XINYE (Warwick): The Politics of Time: Renaissance Poetic Calendars

DICEMBRE
1 Cressida RYAN (Oxford): Camerarius and Sophocles / David LINES (Warwick): Defining Philosophy in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Donato Acciaiuoli

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