The Italian Consulate General in Philadelphia
The Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
The Order Sons of Italy, Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
The Cavalier Society of Philadelphia
The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington

 

present

 

The Fourth Annual Joseph and Elda Coccia
Centennial Celebration Conference

 

Inventing History:
Italian Literature between Philology and History

 

In celebration of the centenary of
Nobel Laureate Giosue Carducci (1835-1907)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, November 30, 2007
9:30 am - 6:30 pm
Saturday, December 1, 2007
9:30 am – 12:45 pm

 

University of Pennsylvania
Houston Hall 218
Ben Franklin Room
3417 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, November 30


9:30 am

Welcoming Remarks
Fabio Finotti

Director, UPenn Center for Italian Studies

10:15 am

Teodolinda
Barolini
Columbia University
Toward an ‘Existential’ Philology:

A Return to the Crossroads of Philology and Hermeneutics


11:00 am
Coffee Break


11:15 am

Gian Mario Anselmi
Università di Bologna
Ermeneutica e Filologia nella Storiografia Umanistica

tra Petrarca e Valla


12:00 pm
H. Wayne Storey
Indiana University - Bloomington
The Materials of Literary History:

Anthologies, Editions, and Other Forms of Imperfect Cultural Recollection


12:45 pm
Lunch Break

 


2:15 pm

Victoria Kirkham
University of Pennsylvania
The Unboxable Boccaccio:

Poetry as Biography

 

3:00 pm
Kevin Brownlee
University of Pennsylvania
Boccaccio's 'Angevin Poetics':

French Literary Models in the Filocolo

 

3:45 pm
Christopher Celenza
Johns Hopkins University

Lorenzo Valla’s Image of Aristotle


4:30 pm
Coffee Break


4:45 pm

Jane Tylus
New York University
Writing Catherine of Siena


5:30 pm

Martin Eisner
Duke University
Figuring Philology: Beyond Flowers, Rivers, Root, and Branches

 

 

 

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?
Un caso di filologia ed ermeneutica

 

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.

 

 

 

Information:
italians@sas.upenn.edu
215.898.6040