Center for Italian Studies
Ravarino Lecture: “Pandemic and Wages in Boccaccio’s Florence”
The Center for Italian Studies presents the sixth annual Ravarino Lecture on April 27, 2023. The 2023 lecture will be delivered by William Caferro of Vanderbilt University. ...
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A Biographical Bet: Fortune, Limits, and New Directions of Dante’s New Lives
“Vite nuove. Biografia e autobiografia di Dante” (Fayard & Carocci, 2021) aimed less to chronicle the life of Dante Alighieri than to raise essential, still unanswered...
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The Italian Research Seminar
The Italian Research Seminar, a core event of the Center for Italian Studies, aims to provide a regular forum for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and colleagues...
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OVI-UND Seminar Series: Linguistic, Philological, and Literary Developments in the Italian Middle Ages
Each Spring semester since 2016, in partnership with the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, the Center for Italian Studies sponsors a series of video conference seminars conducted...
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William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, the Devers Program initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current...
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“Bound up with love …” : The extraordinary legacy of Father John Zahm’s Dante Collection
In 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, we celebrated the legacy of the Zahm Dante Collection and the remarkable accumulation of rare Italian material...
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The Literary Canon of Early Venetian Humanism (1374-1446) between the Classics and the Moderns
In the first half of the fourteenth century, the Veneto region played a pivotal role in the early developments of Italian Humanism. In this same period, cities such as Padova and...
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Deadly Letters: Plague, Banditry, and Heresy in Early Modern Mail
The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Rachel Midura of Virginia Tech University titled “Deadly Letters: Plague, Banditry, and Heresy in Early...
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Italian Research Seminar: Jessica L. Harris (St. John’s University): ‘Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?’: Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy
The end of the Second World War marked a new beginning for Italy as the country sought to transition from Fascism to a modern, industrialized Republic, distancing itself from the...
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Italian Political Elections from an International Perspective
The 2022 Italian general election is was held in Italy on 25 September 2022. Speakers On. Gunther Krichbaum, European Politics spokesperson for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in...
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome
This lecture is a guide to a few iconic moments in the Inferno (Hell), the first part of the "Divine Comedy" written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. The story recounts a...
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Lenten Music Through the Ages
Get ready to embark on your own journey to Italy. This lecture invites you into the world of sacred music and how artistic, religious, and intellectual communities in Rome helped...
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