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CONFERENCE IN MEMORY
OF VITTORE BRANCA
With the support of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, UCL,
The Italian Cultural Institute and the Society for Italian Studies
21 - 22 October 2005
FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER
9.45 Doors open: registration
10.10 Welcome: Charles Hope
FIRST SESSION
Boccaccio
Chair: Giulio Lepschy
10.15 Zygmunt Baranski (University of Cambridge)
Boccaccio and Epicurus
10.45 Carlo Caruso (University
of Warwick)
L’edizione Vittore Branca dell’Amorosa visione (1944) e la nuova
filologia
11.15 Guyda Armstrong (Cardiff
University)
The Translated Boccaccio in Early Modern England
11.45 Coffee
12.05 Nicola Jones (University
of Cambridge)
Illuminating Boccaccio’s Decameron: Visualization or Imagination?
12.35 Catherine Reynolds (University
of Reading)
Boccaccio visualizzato: Edward IV of England’s Des cas des nobles
hommes et femmes
1.05 Lunch (for invited guests)
2.15 Rhiannon Daniels (University of Leeds)
Materiality and Marginalia in Renaissance Editions of the Decameron
2.35 Jonathan Usher (University
of Edinburgh)
Walter Savage Landor and Boccaccio: Creative Writing as Reading
SECOND SESSION
Settecento
e Ottocento
Chair: Brian Richardson
3.00 Enrico Palandri (UCL)
La costruzione di una identità nazionale in Nievo
3.30 John Lindon (UCL)
Vittore Branca, Ugo Foscolo and Sarah Austin
4.00 Tea
4.20 Gilberto Pizzamiglio (University
of Venice)
Vittore Branca tra Alfieri e Conciliatore
4.50 Daniela La Penna (University
of Reading)
La ricezione della poesia di Guido Cavalcanti nella cultura dell’Ottocento
5.45 Wine Reception
6.45 Buffet Supper (for invited guests)
SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
10.00 Doors open: registration
THIRD SESSION
Humanism and Renaissance
Chair: Jill Kraye
10.15 Vincenzo Fera (University
of Messina)
Ragioni e tempi del De viris e dell’Africa del Petrarca
10.45 Abigail Brundin (University
of Cambridge)
Petrarch and the Italian Reformation
11.15 Coffee
11.35 Martin McLaughlin
(University of Oxford)
Boccaccio’s Griselda in Latin: from Petrarch to Neri de’ Nerli
12.05 Brian Richardson (University of Leeds)
The Scribal Publication of Machiavelli’s Works: copisti per passione,
copisti a prezzo
12.35 Lunch (for invited guests)
FOURTH SESSION
Modern
Chair: Martin McLaughlin
1.45 Fabio Finotti (University of Trieste)
Vittore Branca ed Eugenio Montale: giornalismo, poesia e teatro
2.15 Guido Bonsaver (University of Oxford)
Vittore Branca e la fascistissima Firenze liberata
FIFTH SESSION
Venice
Chair: Laura Lepschy
2.50 Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway)
The Accademia degli Incogniti’s Renewal of Boccaccio’s novelle
in Seicento Venice: In Whose Interest?
3.20 Tea
3.40 Mary Laven (University of Cambridge)
Venetian Nunneries Revisited
4.10 Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck College,
London)
The Paradox of Rhetoric and the Government of Venice in the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries
4.40 Brian Pullan (University of Manchester)
Italian Charity and Venetian Charity
For further information
or to reserve a place, contact Elizabeth Witchell at the Warburg Institute.
tel: (020) 7862 8949 or email: Elizabeth.Witchell@sas.ac.uk
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