The Italian Consulate General in Philadelphia
present
The Fourth Annual Joseph and Elda Coccia
Inventing History:
In celebration of the centenary of
Friday, November 30, 2007
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, November 30
10:15 am A Return to the Crossroads of Philology and Hermeneutics
tra Petrarca e Valla Anthologies, Editions, and Other Forms of Imperfect Cultural Recollection
Poetry as Biography
3:00 pm French Literary Models in the Filocolo
3:45 pm
Saturday, December 1
9:30 am Lorenzo Tomasin Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Inventing History of a Language: Carducci and the “maledetta e oziosa questione della lingua”
10:10 am Simone Marchesi Princeton University The Two Halves of a Dialogue: Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Invention of the Epistle
10:50 am Coffee Break
11:00 Franco d’Intino University of Birmingham Quando, dove e perchè Leopardi tradusse un’orazione di Giorgio Gemisto Pletone?
11:40 Ann Moyer University of Pennsylvania Noah on the Janiculum, Dardanus in Fiesole: Medieval Legends and Historical Writing in Sixteenth-century Florence
12:20 pm Stefania Benini University of Pennsylvania In the Wake of Giotto: A Medieval Mystery Play from the Thirties
University of Pennsylvania Houston Hall 218-Ben Franklin Room 3417 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19014
Open to the Public. Free Admission.
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