France and Dante’s Florence
Thursday 17 – Friday 18 May, 2018
Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway, 15 Via Ostilia, 00184
This seminar, sponsored by the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame, has been organized in connection with the research project, “Dante’s Florentine Vernacular Culture, 1280-1301,” and following two successful meetings on “Dante’s Intellectual Formation” (Rome, March 2014) and on “Reconsidering Dante and Brunetto Latini (and Bono Giamboni)” (Rome, May 2017).
The topic of the seminar is “French culture in Florence and in Dante at the end of the Duecento,” and its main aim is to begin to assess Florence’s relationship to Northern French culture by endeavouring to examine not only the influence and circulation of Latin and vernacular texts produced in France, but also the role that France played as a cultural and intellectual mediator. In addition, the hope is to cast further light on Dante’s ties to France and French culture. Consequently, analyses of texts will focus primarily on the evidence that these can provide of the nature of French influences in the city. The Seminar thus contributes to the continuing re-evaluation of the Florentine cultural, social, and political context of the last twenty years of the thirteenth century, the years of Dante’s Florentine intellectual formation.
Seven speakers have been invited to circulate, in advance, a longer version of their presentation to colleagues attending the seminar. The languages of the seminar are Italian and English.
Program
Thursday May 17
13:00: arrivals
13:30-13:45: greetings
Il contesto storico
13:45-14:45: “ ‘Populus noster non magis florentinus quam regius’. Firenze e i sovrani francesi nella seconda metà del Duecento” – Silvia Diacciati
14:45-14:55: presentation of circulated paper
14:55-15:45: discussion
14:45-15:15: coffee break
Il Roman de la Rose a Firenze
15:15-16:15: “Composizione e prima circolazione del Roman de la Rose, e la ricezione italiana (a proposito di saggi recenti e di problemi aperti)” – Pietro Beltrami (Pisa)
15:15-15:25: presentation of circulated paper
15:25-16:15: discussion
Fiore e il Detto d’Amore
16:15-17:15: “Fiore, Detto d’Amore e dintorni” – Luciano Formisano (Bologna)
16:15-16:25: presentation of circulated paper
16:25-17:15: discussion
19:30: dinner and/or reception for all participants
Friday May 18
Scuola di Chartres
9:00-10:00: “The School of Chartres: Myths and Facts” – Paola Nasti (Reading)
9:00-9:10: presentation of paper
9:10-10:00: discussion
10:00-10:30: coffee break
Le Rime petrose
10:30-11:30: “Le petrose come sfida e superamento della lirica transalpina” – Enrico Fenzi (Genova)
10:30-10:40: presentation of circulated paper
10:40-11:30: discussion
Brunetto e l’Histoire ancienne
11:30-12:30: “Brunetto Latini and the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (Tresor, I, 21-25)” – Maria Teresa Rachetta (King’s College London)
11:30-11:40: presentation of circulated paper
11:40-12:30: discussion
12:30-14:00: lunch (buffet on the terrace)
Invited Discussants
Roberto Antonelli (Roma Sapienza)
Zyg Barański (Cambridge/ND)
Elisa Brilli (Toronto)
Giuseppina Brunetti (Bologna)
Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge)
Theodore J. Cachey (Notre Dame)
Ambrogio Camozzi (Cambridge)
Paolo Cherchi (Chicago)
Fabrizio Cigni (Pisa)
Lorenzo Dell’Oso (Notre Dame)
Enrico Faini (Firenze)
Sonia Gentili (Roma Sapienza)
Claudio Giunta (Trento)
Marco Grimaldi (Roma Sapienza)
Tristan Kay (Bristol)
Catherine Keen (UCL)
Lino Leonardi (Siena)
Luca Lombardo (Notre Dame)
Enrico Malato
Luca Marcozzi (Roma Tre)
Mira Mocan (Roma Tre)
Antonio Montefusco (Ca’ Foscari)
Ana Cristina Montenegro (NYU)
Anna Pegoretti (Roma Tre)
Lino Pertile (Harvard)
Stefano Prandi (Berna)
Chiara Sbordoni (Notre Dame)
Giovanni Vedovotto (Notre Dame)
Riccardo Viel (Bologna)
Xiaoyi Zhang (Notre Dame)
Organizers
Zygmunt G. Barański (Notre Dame; Cambridge)
Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. (Notre Dame)
Anne C. Leone (Notre Dame)
Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.