2017 Dec 07 Thursday Seminar “Revisiting the origins of the madrigal” 6:00pmLocation: Gould Hall The origin of the madrigal is a recurring topic in musicology. Did it evolve out of the frottola (Einstein 1949), the chanson and motet (Fenlon and Haar 1988) or the carnival song (A. Cummings 2004)?... Read more about Thursday Seminar “Revisiting the origins of the madrigal”
2017 Nov 30 Thursday Seminar “Exuberant lines: On so-called ‘calligraphic’ drawings in 17th-century Italy” 6:00pmLocation: Gould Hall In this talk, Nicola Suthor will discuss the long-standing literary tradition of a controversial artistic performance first demonstrated in ancient Greece and consisting of drawing a form or figure by means of a single continuous line.... Read more about Thursday Seminar “Exuberant lines: On so-called ‘calligraphic’ drawings in 17th-century Italy”
2017 Nov 16 Thursday Seminar: “The Paradoxical Queen in the Garden: Maria de’ Medici at Fontainebleau” 6:00pmLocation: Gould Hall From the moment of his marriage to his new consort Maria de’ Medici in 1600, Henri IV began to sanction imagery that promoted her value to the French monarchy.... Read more about Thursday Seminar: “The Paradoxical Queen in the Garden: Maria de’ Medici at Fontainebleau”
2017 Nov 06 "Time does not heal all Wounds: The Place of George Kubler’s 'The Shape of Time' within his Oeuvre, and its Colonial Discontents” 6:00pmLocation: Istituto degli Innocenti, Sala Brunelleschi, Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 50121, Florence ... Read more about "Time does not heal all Wounds: The Place of George Kubler’s 'The Shape of Time' within his Oeuvre, and its Colonial Discontents”
2017 Oct 31 Del Mar Del Mundo: Francesco Durante and the Neapolitan School in the Hispanic Colonies of America 6:00pmLocation: Myron and Sheila GiImore Limonaia ... Read more about Del Mar Del Mundo: Francesco Durante and the Neapolitan School in the Hispanic Colonies of America
2017 Oct 26 Thursday Seminar: Paul Nelles / José María Pérez Fernández 6:00pmLocation: Gould Hall “Writing, Mobility and Distance in the Making of the Society of Jesus (1540-1573)” / "La Biblioteca Hernandina: Hernando Colón’s New Cartography of Knowledge" ... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Paul Nelles / José María Pérez Fernández
2017 Oct 18 Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts of the Orlando Furioso. An International Conference (All day)Location: Gould Hall Among the most complex and engaging artefacts of early modern Italian culture, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso was first published in 1516... Read more about Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts of the Orlando Furioso. An International Conference
2017 Oct 12 Thursday Seminar: Jeremy Melius / Joseph Luzzi 6:00pmLocation: Gould Hall “Gothic and Anti-Gothic in Ruskin’s Renaissance” / “The Secret Lives of Books: Toward a Biography of Dante’s Divine Comedy” ... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Jeremy Melius / Joseph Luzzi
2017 Sep 27 Fellows' Presentations III: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:30am to 5:00pm Location: Gould Hall... Read more about Fellows' Presentations III: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
2017 Sep 21 Fellows' Presentations II: Thursday September 21, 2017 9:30am to 5:00pm Location: Gould Hall ... Read more about Fellows' Presentations II: Thursday September 21, 2017
