Constructing Cultural Authority and ‘Canonicity’in the Italian Literature Sphere (1300-1600) & The Dante Canon (1300-1600)

Time: Wed May 22, 2024, All Day

Location: Notre Dame Rome

The first workshop (Wednesday, May 22) aims to explore the construction of poetic and cultural authority and 'canonicity' in Italian literature from the Trecento to the Cinquecento. Papers would explore the ways in which authors and their authority are 'constructed' both within and outside texts, their own or those of others; through the production, but also the circulation and reproduction of literature; through rewritings, biographies, and poetic theories; through the material features of books.

Organizers: Laura Banella, Zygmunt G. Barański, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Francesco Feriozzi.

The second workshop (Thursday, May 23) will focus on the reception of Dante's works between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, with a special focus for how these texts were inserted within a literary canon and on how Dante's literary corpus was shaped and represented in the manuscript and printed tradition. The workshop is open to everyone.

Organizers: Laura Banella, Zygmunt G. Barański, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Francesco Feriozzi

Program

May 22, 2024

Constructing Cultural Authority and 'Canonicity' in the Italian Literary Sphere (1300-1600)

Chair: Heather Webb (Cambridge)

3:00-4:30 Session 1

Introduction: Laura Banella, Francesco Feriozzi

Abigail Brundin (Cambridge-British School in Rome), Vittoria Colonna: Purity as Poetic Authority

Kenneth Clarke (York), Interpolation and/as Interpretation in the Early Manuscript Tradition of Dante’s ‘Commedia’

4:30-5:00 Break

5:00-7:00 Session 2

Laura Banella (Notre Dame), Performing Another Self: Annotating the Lyric and the Displacement of the Author

Bernhard Huss (FU Berlin), Hans Robert Boccaccio ovvero Rezeptionsästhetik ante litteram

Francesco Giusti (Oxford), Premodern Digital: Creative Cannibalism and Dispersed Authorship

May 23, 2024

The Dante Canon (1300-1600)

Chair: Zygmunt Barański (Notre Dame - Cambridge)

9:30-11 Session 1

Alessio Decaria (Genova), Leggere, scrivere, stampare le rime di Dante a Firenze nel primo Cinquecento. Intorno alla Giuntina di rime antiche

Alessia Carrai (Padova), Dal Paradiso alle Egloghe: Il Parnaso di Dante e la prima ricezione trecentesca

11:00.11:30 Break

11:30-1:00 Session 2

Francesco Feriozzi (Notre Dame), Ierocrazia e umanesimo: note trecentesche alla 'Monarchia'

Paolo Chiesa (Milano), Una nuova traccia della ‘Monarchia’ a Milano nella prima metà del Trecento?