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From: Richard Raiswell <[log in to unmask]>
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies announces the 2001
Summer Institute in the Italian Archival Sciences, a four week summer
seminar (18 June - 13 July 2001) directed by Armando Petrucci and Franca
Nardelli.
Drs. Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli, who led the 1993 Newberry
Library Summer Institute in the Italian Archival Sciences, will be
returning to direct the 2001 Summer Institute. Under their tutelage,
participants will receive intensive training in the accurate reading and
transcription of late medieval and Renaissance Italian vernacular texts.
Although the major emphasis of the Institute is on paleographical skills,
codicological techniques and analytical bibliography, the history of
scripts, within the larger literary, intellectual and social contexts of
Italy will be considered. Participants will also be introduced to textual
editing, receiving training in the techniques required to proceed from a
manuscript to a modern critical edition. The course will be conducted in
Italian.
The Institute is supported by generous grants from The Gladys Krieble
Delmas Foundation, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, and the
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies consortium universities,
with special assistance from Northwestern University. Funds are available
for graduate students and faculty of the Newberry Library Center for
Renaissance Studies consortium universities to travel to the Newberry
Library to attend the Institute.
The application deadline is 1 March 2001
Armando Petrucci, formerly Director of the Institute of Paleography at the
University of Rome, now teaches at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
His latest publications include Alfabetismo, escritura, sociedad (1999)
and Prima lezione di storia della cultura scritta (forthcoming), as well
as articles and essays on the history of writing and literacy. He is
currently preparing a critical edition of all original correspondence in
Latin dating from the seventh to the eleventh centuries.
Franca Petrucci Nardelli, author of numerous studies on the history and
codicology of the printed book, and the politics and culture of the
Italian Renaissance, currently teaches at the University of Pisa and the
"Corso europeo di specializzazione per conservatori e restauratori di beni
librari" of Spoleto. Her most recent publications include articles and
essays on printing and binding history, and Fra stampa e legature
(forthcoming).
For further information and application materials, please contact: The
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 60 West Walton Street,
Chicago, IL 60610-3380, USA
Phone: +1-312-255-3514
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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