European Renaissance I: Reading for Entertainment
[The Virtual part is planned in 3 different months (September, October, November). If for reasons related to students' registration, CIVIS prefers the Virtual part to be organized entirely in the month of November (3 sections in November), we can do that, and just need to update the dates] 20 September 2023 “Highbrow reading” h. 9-13 1) Raffaele Ruggiero (Aix-Marseille Université), Lettori di Erasmo: il successo involontario del Iulius [IT] 2) Lorenzo Bartoli (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Cervantes reader of the Furioso [EN] 18 October 2023 “Lowbrow reading” h. 9-13 1) Shanti Graheli (University of Glasgow), Readers of popular print in the pre-modern age: a comparative perspective [EN] 2) Gabriele Bucchi (Université de Lausanne), La letteratura di larga circolazione: una zona d’incontro tra lettori colti e popolari [IT] 15 November 2023 “Practices of reading” h. 9-13 1) Helena Sanson (University of Cambridge), Women’s Readings in Early Modern Italy: Prescriptions and Practices [EN] 2) Sophie Berangere Singlard (Aix-Marseille Université), The Transmission of Knowledge in Vernacular in Early Modern Books: Readers and Practices of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain [EN] The course aims to offer a new perspective on European Renaissance culture by investigating a very common practice in early-modern society: that is, reading as a form of entertainment.
Application Deadline
Virtual Part starting date
2023-09-20
Virtual Part closing date
2023-11-15
Total student workload
92
Specific field of studies
European Literature, Renaissance Studies, History of reading and readers, Languages
Pre-requisite for selection
CV
Motivation Letter
Academic pre-requisites for applicants
Knowledge of Early Modern European history, Knowledge of Early Modern European literature, Knowledge on Italian and English Language (level B2 in both)
Physical Part starting date
2023-12-11
Physical Part Description
DAY 1 - 11 December 2023
h. 9
Welcome
h. 9.30-13.30
1) Arianna Punzi (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Lettori e lettrici di romanzi arturiani nell'Italia trecentesca [IT]
2) Shanti Graheli (University of Glasgow), Readers, Reading Practices and the Archaeology of the Book [EN]
DAY 2 - 12 December 2023
h. 9-13
1) Iolanda Plescia (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Reading as Entertainment in Shakespeare [EN]
2) Paolo Falzone (Sapienza Università di Roma), Una lunga infedeltà. La canzone d'amore di Guido Cavalcanti e i suoi lettori dal XIV al XVI secolo [IT]
h. 15-17
Visit to a Library in Rome
DAY 3 - 13 December 2023
h. 9-13
1) Luca Fiorentini (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Difendere Dante dagli umanisti [IT]
2) Francesco Lucioli (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Between Entertainment and Criticism: Adaptations, Translations, Rewritings [EN]
h. 14-17
Seminar with Francesco Lucioli (Sapienza, Università di Roma) and Ioannis Tsolkas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
DAY 4 - 14 December 2023
h. 9-13
1) Ioannis Tsolkas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Diece paradosse degli Accademici Intronati: Il ruolo delle donne e l’uguaglianza tra uomini e donne
2) Maiko Favaro (Sapienza Università di Roma), Leggere i Rerum vulgarium fragmenta di Petrarca nel Rinascimento [IT]
h. 14-17
Seminar with Francesco Lucioli (Sapienza, Università di Roma) and Ioannis Tsolkas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) [IT]
DAY 5 - 15 December 2023
h. 9-13
1) Chiara De Cesare (Università di Parma), Biographers, Readers/Collectors, and Publishers of Ariosto’s Satire and Cinque Canti (with a look at the documents) [EN]
2) Elisabetta Sarmati (Sapienza Università di Roma), Il Novecento rilegge i libri di cavalleria: Riprese e trasfigurazioni dei libri di cavalleria spagnoli (e del Quijote) di epoca moderna: AmadissigloXX [IT]
h. 13-13.30
Conclusion
Physical Part closing date
2023-12-15
Language level required
B2
Field of studies related to the course
Social Science and Humanities
Course location
Rome, Italy
Course language
English
Italian