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Reading the State. Medieval Venice and Its Territories: Representations, Maps, Literatures
The workshop is part of the Doctoral Workshop on History, Economy, Society, and Culture in the Venetian Empire (10th-18th centuries), hosted by the EHESS-École des Hautes Études...
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OVI Seminar Series 2024, IV
Investigating the phenomenon of the so-called ‘rhythmic figures’ in Dante through a new database and query platform for the Commedia, which aims at setting up a new, wide...
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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 Dante’s 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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OVI Seminar Series 2024, V: Linguistic Contact in Sardinia in the Medieval Period
Starting from the studies of Max Leopold Wagner, the linguistic contact in the Middle Ages with the Tuscan of Pisa and, to a lesser extent, with the people of the coastal region...
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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 Giovanni’s 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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Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio’s Decameron by Justin Steinberg
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 lunchtime book presentation...
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Way of Seeing Water: Wetlands, Mapping, and the Art of Painting
Leonardo da Vinci’s 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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Translation…or a hundred years of ulyssitude
On 02.02.2022 Joyce’s Ulysses will turn a hundred and its author a hundred and forty. Less than a decade ago, on 02.02.2012, my previous Italian translation of Joyce’s...
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“Lockdown Literature,” a pandemic reading list by Prof. Barry McCrea
Listen to Italian Studies faculty affiliate, Prof. Barry McCrea, deliver a radio essay on teaching literature in a pandemic for Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday Miscellany....
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