Center for Italian Studies
OVI Seminar Series 2024, IV
Investigating the phenomenon of the so-called ārhythmic figuresā in Dante through a new database and query platform for the Commedia, which aims at setting up a new, wide...
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“Boccaccio, the Disguised Revolutionary” by Martin Eisner (Duke University)
Medieval and renaissance, feminist and misogynist, radical and conservative, class-warrior and aspiring aristocrat, Boccaccio has been interpreted in a variety of contradictory...
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OVI Seminar Series 2024, III
Drawing on a research tradition that goes back to the origins of electronic lexicography, the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano has developed, during its activity, models and tools...
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OVI Seminar Series 2024, II
The centrality of the figure of Beatrice within the literary work of Dante Alighieri is such a well-known and peacefully accepted assumption in Danteās modern exegesis that it...
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Enzo Biagi and the Indulgent Memory of Fascism in Postwar Italy
The post-1990s public de-mystification of the long celebrated Italian armed resistance against Fascism and Nazism (1943-1945), resulting from the decades-long efforts by a few...
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A Less Than Discreet Copyist
Dating to the last quarter of the 15th century, the ms. Milan, Civic Historical Archive and Trivulziana Library, 85 conveys a lesson from Ser Giovanniās Pecorone which well...
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Dante’s Blood by Anne Leone
As part of the fourth edition of The Three Crowns: Texts and Contexts of Medieval Italy series, the Center for Italian Studies is delighted to host a presentation featuring Anne...
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Leonardo da Vinciās Way of Seeing Water: Wetlands, Mapping, and the Art of Painting
Leonardo da Vinciās close observation of water is well known as is his unparalleled draftsmanship in rendering water eddies, turns, swirls, and flows. In this lecture, Professor...
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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 celebratedĀ the legacy of the Zahm Dante Collection and the remarkable accumulation of rare Italian material...
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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 theĀ 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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