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Desire, Anxiety, Shame: Transatlantic (Re)Mediations and ‘Italian Culture’
In this talk Professor Loredana Polezzi looks at the complex and often fraught processes of linguistic and cultural translation/mediation which characterize the relationship...
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The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante’s Italy
In late medieval Italy, amicizia was not an unequivocal moral or affective good. Instead, it was an ambiguous term to be deployed strategically, describing a wide range of social...
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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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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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Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with...
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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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Voices on Dante’s “Purgatorio”. Canti 15-21. Love in Purgatory
This is the third session in the Voices on Dante’s Purgatorio 2022-23 series of five to assess and discuss the individual cantos of Dante’s Purgatorio. Click here for more...
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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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