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Program
Friday, April 16th
Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall in the Chemistry Building
231 South 34th Street
1:00 - 3:00
Petrarch's Early Humanism, the Commitment to Latin
Presider: Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania
The Lives of Famous Men: De viris illustribus
Ronald Witt, Duke University
The Epic: Africa
Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
The Poet as Encyclopedist: Rerum memorandarum libri
Paolo Cherchi, Università di Ferrara
3:15 - 5:30
Coronation and Spiritual Crisis
Presider: Simone Marchesi, Princeton University
Orationes: The Coronation Oration
Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh
Secretum
David Marsh, Rutgers University
The Penitential Psalms
E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania
Itinerarium ad sepulchrum domini nostri Yehsu Christi
Theodore Cachey, University of Notre Dame
Rosenwald Gallery, Sixth floor, Van Pelt Library
3421 Woodland Walk
6:00 - 8:00
Conference Reception
Welcoming Remarks
Millicent Marcus, Director of the Center for Italian Studies
Joseph Coccia, President of the Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute
Carlos Alonso, Chair of the Department of Romance Languages
Rebecca Bushnell, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Joseph Farrell, Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Nicoletta Marini, Cultural Attaché of the Italian Consulate General in Philadelphia
Michael Ryan, Director of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania
Conference Introduction
"The Complete Petrarch: Posterity Answers a Letter"
Petrarchan madrigals
sung by Mary Therese Royal de Martinez
Harpsichordist, Barbara Weiss
Saturday, April 17th
Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall in the Chemistry Building
231 South 34th Street
9:15 - 11:00
Contemplative Serenity
Presider: Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania
Pastoral Poems: Bucolicum carmen
Stefano Carrai, Università di Siena
De vita solitaria
Armando Maggi, University of Chicago
De otio religioso
Felix Asiedu, University of Pennsylvania
11:15 - 1:00
Life's Turbulence
Presider: Pier Massimo Forni, Johns Hopkins University
Fortune Fair and Foul: De remediis utriusque Fortune
Timothy Kircher, Guilford College
The Art of Invective: Invective contra medicum
Stefano Cracolici, University of Pennsylvania
The Art of Invective: De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia
William J. Kennedy, Cornell University
2:15 - 4:15
The Vernacular Poet
Presider: Robert M. Durling, University of California at Santa Cruz, Emeritus
A Lyric Sequence: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University
Triumphi
Fabio Finotti, Università di Trieste
"Rime disperse"
Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago
4:30 - 6:30
Petrarch the Epistler
Presider: Millicent Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
A Book of Private Letters: Liber sine nomine
Ronald Martinez, Brown University
Epystole
Giuseppe Velli, Università Statale di Milano
Familiares
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
Epistole seniles, "Griseldis"
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
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