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Caro Dino, 

Sarei interessata a recensire il libro di Jo Ann Cavallo sul maggio in
Emilia.
Il mio indirizzo è 1360 St-Jacques, apt. 510. Montreal, QC, H3C 4M4.
Canada

Cordiali saluti,

Maria Predelli


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News from Annali d'italianistica and Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC), March
17, 2004.

Dear Colleagues:

1.      After the list of books received posted below, you will find the
Program of the Petrarch Symposium that will take place at UNC, Chapel
Hill, March 18-20, 2004. The selected papers of the Symposium will
appear in AdI 2004: Petrarch and the European Lyric Tradition. The
program appears also on the website of AdI.
2.      You will find below the most recent list of books received.
Interested scholars may contact the Editor at: [log in to unmask]
3.      Scholars who have never reviewed for AdI, or are new in the
profession, are encouraged to introduce themselves briefly when they
request books to review.
4.      The list of books received is also posted on the journal's
website,
where information on the journal's editorial practices can also be
found.
5.      The journal's website contain also the following information,
which
is available to everybody:
Table of Contents of AdI 2003, edited by Luigi Monga, on Hodoeporics
(travel literature); Also available on the website are the Table of
Contents of all volumes and the full text of all book reviews appeared
in AdI since 1998.

6.      Colleagues who have accepted to review books should submit their
reviews before the next deadline, June 30, 2004.
7.      The topic of AdI 2005 is "Literature and Science." A description
of
the topic is available on the journal's website. The editor is
especially interested in essays that deal with the relations between
Literature and Science from a theoretical perspective.
8.      Here follows the list of books received, which is also posted on
the
journal's webpage (www.ibiblio.org/annali). Colleagues who wish to
review a book should contact the editor at: [log in to unmask]
9.      In all your correspondence with the Editor, please provide your
e-mail address, complete name, and complete address for regular
correspondence. I will answer all requests within two weeks.

BOOKS RECEIVED
March 17, 2004

Adamo, Giuliana. Metro e ritmo del primo Palazzeschi. Quaderni di
"Filologia e critica" 18. Roma: Salerno editrice, 2003. Pp. 208.

Allaire, Gloria, ed. and trans. Italian Literature I. Tristano
panciatichiano. Arthurian Archives 8. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2002.
Pp. 758.

Annoni, Carlo. La poesia di Parini e la città secolare. Milano: Vita e
Pensiero, 2002. Pp. 181.

Baldoli, Claudia. Exporting Fascism. Italian Fascists and Britain's
Italians in the 1930s. Oxford: Berg, 2003. Pp. 217.

Balletta, Felice, and Angela Barwig, eds.  Italienische Erzählliteratur
der Achtziger und Neunziger Jahre. Zeitgenössische Autorinnen und
Autoren in Einzelmonographien. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp.
457. 

Bertoldo, Roberto. The Calvary of the Cranes. / Il calvario delle gru.
Trans. Emanuel di Pasquale. Boca Raton(FL): Bordighera, 2003. Pp. 117.

Borra, Antonello, and Cristina Pausini. Italian Through Film. A Text for
Italian Courses. Yale Language Series. New Haven: Yale UP, 2004. Pp.
119.

Bourdua, Louise. The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval
Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. 242.

Bruni, Francesco, and Paolo Cherchi, eds. Letteratura e impegno. Il
pensiero critico di Rocco Montano. Saggi di "Lettere italiane." Firenze:
Olschki, 2003. Pp. 237.

Buonocore, Annalisa. Dialettali e neodialettali in inglese. Preface by
Cosma Siani. Quaderni del Centro di Documentazione della Poesia
Pialettale "Vincenzo Scarpellino". Roma: Cofine, 2003. Pp. 63. 

The Cambridge Companion to Giotto. Ed. Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. 313.

The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini. Ed. Peter Humfrey.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. 355.

The Cambridge Companion to Titian. Ed. Patricia Meilman. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. 372.

Campana, Dino. Canti orfici. Orphic Songs. Trans. Luigi Bonaffini. Boca
Raton, FL: Bordighera, 2003. Pp. 375.

Cassell, Anthony K. The Monarchia Controversy. An Historical Study with
Accompanying Translations of Dante Alighieri's Monarchia, Guido
Vernani's Refutation of the "Monarchia" Composed by Dante, and Pope John
XXII's Bull Si fratrum. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of
America P, 2004. Pp. 403.

Cavallo, Jo Ann. Il maggio emiliano: ricordi, riflessioni, brani. DVD
(PAL format), 2003. 93 minutes.

Cestaro, Gary P. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body. Notre Dame:
U of Notre Dame P, 2003. Pp. 305.

Colophon. Rassegna internazionale di arti e lettere / An International
Journal of Arts and Letters. Spring (2002) 7/8. Pp. 168.

Deledda, Grazia. Ashes.  Trans. Jan Kozma. Cranbury (NJ): Associated
University Presses, 2004. Pp. 222.

De Luca, Erri. God's Mountain. Trans. Michael Moore. New York: Riverhead
Books, 2002. Pp. 168.

Echi danteschi / Dantean Echoes. Quaderni di cultura italiana 3. Torino:
Trauben, 2003. Pp. 143.

Finiguerra, Assunta. Solije. Prefazione di Franco Loy. Roma: Zone
editrice, 2003. Pp. 95.

Girolamo Comi. Atti del convegno internazionale Lecce, Tricase,
Lucugnano, 18-20 ottobre 2001. Lecce: Milella, 2002. Pp. 446.

Guasco, Annibal. Discourse to Lady Lavinia his Daughter. Ed., trans.,
and introd. Peggy Osborn. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Pp. 145.

Herry, Ginette. Goldoni à Venise. La Passion du poète. Textes et études.
Domaine italien 12. Paris: Champion, 2002. Pp. 264.

Jarrard, Alice. Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-Century
Europe. Court Ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 2003. Pp. 298. 

Jewell, Keala.  The Art of Enigma. De Chirico Brothers & the Politics of
Modernism. University Park: The Pennsylvania State UP, 2004. Pp. 237. 

Kirkpatrick, Robin. Dante : The Divine Comedy. A Student Guide.
Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. 118.

Laboratoire italien. Politique et société. La République en exil
(XVe-XVIe siècles). Lyon : Association Laboratoire italien / ENS
Éditions, 2002. Pp. 202. 

Lettieri, Michael, and Rocco Mario Morano, eds. A Critical Edition of
Giovanni Kreglianovich's Tragedy Orazio (1797). Studies in Italian
Literature 13. Lewiston (NY): Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. Pp. 350.

Lombroso, Cesare, and Guglielmo Ferrero. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute,
and the Normal Woman. Trans. and new intro. Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary
Gibson. Durham (NC): Duke UP, 2004. Pp. 304.

Malpezzi Price, Paola. Moderata Fonte. Women and Life in
Sixteenth-Century Venice. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses,
2003. Pp. 175.

Migiel, Marilyn. A Rhetoric of the Decameron. Toronto: U of Toronto P,
2003. Pp. 219.

Milburn, Erika. Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century
Naples. Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Dissertations
57. Leeds (UK): Maney Publishing, 2003. Pp. 227.

Montano, Rocco. Arte, realtà e storia. L'estetica del Croce e il mondo
dell'arte. Venezia: Marsilio, 2003. Pp. 154.

Mott, Lawrence. Sea Power in the Medieval Mediterranean. The
Catalan-Aragonese Fleet in the War of the Sicilian Vespers. New
Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology. Gainesville:
UP of Florida, 2003. Pp. 337.

Nogarola, Isotta. Complete Writings. Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and
Eve, Orations. Ed. and trans. Margaret L. King and Diana Robin. The
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004. Pp.
226.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo. Il re dei giapponesi. Ed. Luigi Martellini.
Pistoia: Via del vento edizioni, 2003. Pp. 31.

Perry, Alan R. Il santo partigiano martire. La retorica del sacrificio
nelle biografie commemorative. Ravenna: Longo, 2001. Pp. 364.

Piemontese, Angelo Michele. La letteratura italiana in Persia. Atti
della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei Anno 400 (2003). Classe di scienze
morali, storiche e filologiche. Memorie Serie 9, vol. 17, fasc. 1. Roma,
2003. Pp. 249.

Pietro Alighieri. Comentum super poema Comedie Dantis A Critical Edition
of the Third and Final Draft of Pietro Alighieri's Commentary on Dante's
The Divine Comedy. Ed. Massimiliano Chiamenti. Medieval and Renaissance
Texts and Studies 247. Tempe (AZ): Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 2002. Pp. 722.

Quasimodo e gli altri. Atti del convegno internazionale Lovanio, 27-28
aprile 2001. Ed. Franco Musarra, Bart van den Bossche, and Serge
Vanvolsem. Nuova serie 8. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2003. Pp. 191.

Rossi, Tiziano. People on the Run. Trans. Paul Vangelisti. Kobenhavn :
Green Integer, 2002. Pp. 227. 

Somigli, Luca. Legitimizing the Artist. Manifesto Writing and European
Modernism, 1885-1915. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003. Pp. 296.

Tarabotti, Arcangela. Paternal Tyranny. Ed. and trans. Letizia Panizza.
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.
Pp. 182.

Tassi, Jane. Poems. And Songsongsonglessness. / E
nonuncantononuncantouncanto. Trans. into Italian Ned Condini. Boca Raton
(FL): Bordighera, 2004. Pp. 127. 

Tortora, Massimiliano. Svevo novelliere. Pisa: Giardini, 2003. Pp. 175.

Ventresca, Robert A. From Fascism to Democracy. Culture and Politics in
the Italian Election of 1948. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004. Pp. 354.

Weaver, Elissa B., ed. The Decameron First Day in Perspective. Toronto:
U of Toronto P, 2004. Pp. 270.

*

PETRARCH SYMPOSIUM

Francesco Petrarca
1304-1374




The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March 18 - March 20, 2004


With gratitude I would like to acknowledge
the support of all those who have made this Symposium possible: 
Professor Frank Dominguez, Professor Erika Lindemann, 
and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; 
Senior Associate Dean Dean Darryl Gless and the College of Arts and
Sciences; 
Professor Ruel W. Tyson and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities; 
Dr. Ruth Mitchell-Pitts and the Center for European Studies; 
Professor Edward Don Kennedy and the Curriculum of Comparative
Literature; 
Professors John Nádas, James Haar, Tim Carter and the Music Department; 
all Italian faculty and all graduate students in Italian for their
support and collaboration; the organizers of the Conference on Romance
Literatures, in particular Mr. Matthew Harper; the Italian Club; the
secretarial staff of the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures; 
finally and foremost, all participants of the Petrarch Symposium.









The Symposium is open to the public free of charge.
The reception's desk will be in or just outside Toy Lounge in the fourth
floor of Dey Hall. Faculty, students, and guests are welcome and are
invited to register at no charge at the reception's desk, where they
will all receive a free badge.






Dino S. Cervigni, The Symposium's Organizer, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

Thursday, March 18 

INAUGURAL SESSION: TOY LOUNGE

4:30-5:30

Dino S. Cervigni, UNC-CH
Introductory remarks

Erika Lindemann, Interim Chair, Romance Languages and Literatures
Welcome

Presider, Darryl Gless, Senior Associate Dean
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Plenary Speaker:
Gordon Braden, University of Virginia
Petrarch and Wyatt




5:30-7:00: DEY 305
Session: The Petrarchan Canzoniere's Lyric Strategies
Chair: Simona Muratore, UNC-CH
Speakers
1. Jennifer Pendergrass, UNC-CH
Un lungo error: The Petrarch-Persona's Labyrinth in RVF 211
2. Scott Youngdahl, UNC-CH
"Solea lontana in sonno consolarme" (RVF 250: 1): Madonna in the
Petrarch-Persona's Dreams 3. Jocelyn Dawson, UNC-CH When You Are Old:
Petrarch's "Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento," Ronsard's "Quand vous
serez bien vielle," and Yeats's "When you are old"



7:00-7:30 TOY LOUNGE: Reception
 

Friday, March 19
8:00-9:00 
2510 Student Union 
Continental breakfast


9:00-10:30
TOY LOUNGE

Petrarch and Boccaccio:  Dialogizing Scholars and Friends Chair, Ennio
Rao, UNC-CH Speakers 1. Simone Marchesi, Princeton University 
Tra filologia e retorica: Petrarca e Boccaccio di fronte al nuovo Livio
2. Kristina Olson, Columbia University 
"Concivis meus":  Petrarch's Rerum memorandarum libri, Boccaccio's 
Decameron 6.9, and the Writing of Florentine History
3. Elsa Filosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Petrarca, Boccaccio e le mulieres clarae: dalla Familiares XXI, 8 al De
mulieribus claris



PLENARY SESSION: TOY LOUNGE
10:45-11:45

Presider, Rosa P. Perelmuter

Plenary Speaker:
Anne J. Cruz, The University of Miami
"Verme morir entre memorias tristes":  Petrarch, Garcilaso, and the
Poetics of Memory

12:00-1:30 Lunch break
 
1:30-2:50: TOY LOUNGE
Renaissance Petrarchism in Italy and France
Chair, Sara Sturm Maddox, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1.
Fiora Bassanese, University of Massachusetts, Boston Gaspara Stampa's
Petrarchan Commemorations 2. JoAnn DellaNeva, University of Notre Dame
An Exploding Canon: Petrarch and the Petrarchists in the French
Renaissance 3. Deborah Lesko Baker, Georgetown University Petrarchan
Subjectivity in the French Lyric
3:00-4:20: TOY LOUNGE
Petrarch and 19th-20th Century Poetry
Chair, Roberto Dainotto, Duke University
Speakers
1. Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mixing Memory and Desire: Leopardi Reading Petrarch
2. Ernesto Livorni, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Italian Hermetic Poetry and the Renewal of the Petrarchan Tradition 3.
Joseph Luzzi, Bard College Italy's Broken Heart: Petrarch and the
Romantic Body Politic 4:30-6:00 PLENARY SESSION: DEY HALL 305 Petrarch
and Music
Presider: Giuseppe Gerbino, Columbia University
John Nádas, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Poetry and
Music in Late Trecento Florence James Haar, The University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill A Musical Accompaniment to Petrarchan lezioni at
the Accademia Fiorentina 6:00-7:00
Reception: Toy Lounge
7:15-7:45 Pre-Concert Lecture
Tim Carter, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hill Hall Auditorium
8:00: Petrarchan Concert (Tickets: $15 General Admission; $12 Seniors;
$5 Students)
Place: Hill Hall Auditorium
Title: 
"At Looser Hours in the Shade: Petrarchan Songs and Echoes"
Description:
A program of seventeenth-century virtuoso solo songs for bass voice and
chitarrone, with music by Claudio Monteverdi, Sigismondo d'India, Jacopo
Peri, Giovan Domenico Puliaschi, Henry Purcell, John Blow and William
Lawes.

Performers: 
Richard Wistreich (bass), Nigel North (chitarrone, lutes) Richard
Wistreich (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) is one of the leading
bass singers of his generation, well known for his work, and recordings,
with the Consort of Musicke and, more recently, as an exponent of songs
and operatic roles for solo bass.  Nigel North (Indiana University,
Bloomington IN) is perhaps the finest exponent of plucked string
instruments of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and also
renowned as a continuo accompanist. Saturday, March 20 8:00-8:45 2510
Student Union 
Continental breakfast


8:45-10:15: TOY LOUNGE

Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Petrarchan Influences
Chair: Lisa Mason, UNC-CH
1. Anita Park, Indiana University, Bloomington
Lyric Non-Sequiturs: The Making of a Fragmented Diary
2. Susanna Barsella, Georgetown University
Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Life of Saint Peter Damian. 
The Figure of the Poet Between Asceticism and Civic Commitment 3. Matteo
Soranzo, University of Wisconsin Percorsi volgari dell'elegia neolatina.
Il canone letterario umanista e il culto di Petrarca 4. Kristina Varade,
New York University Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl: Petrarchan
Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Literature



PLENARY SESSION: TOY LOUNGE
10:30-12:15

Presider, Ron Witt, Duke University

Plenary Speakers:
Michelangelo Picone, The University of Zürich, Switzerland
The Structure of Petrarch's Canzoniere

Karlheinz Stierle, The University of Constance, Germany
A Manifesto of New Singing: The Group of Canzoni 125-129 in Petrarch's
Canzoniere

12:30-2:00 Lunch break

 

2:00-3:00: TOY LOUNGE
Petrarch's Influence in the Renaissance and Beyond
Chair, Lance Lazar, UNC-CH
1. Thomas E. Mussio, Iona College
Petrarch's Phoenix in Marino's Adone
2. Michael Moore, Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations Can
the Canzone sing in English?

3:00-4:15: Dey 305
Reading Petrarch's Canzoniere
Chair, Simone Marchesi, Princeton University
1. Thomas E. Peterson, University of Georgia
The Fabulous Petrarch: The "prima raccolta" (1342) as the Source of the
Fabulous in Petrarch's RVF 2. Dino Cervigni, UNC-CH The Petrarchan
Lover's Discourse: An Augustinian Semiotic Approach to the Canzoniere
PLENARY SESSION: TOY LOUNGE 4:30-6:15 Presider, Valeria Finucci, Duke
University Plenary Speakers: Sara Sturm Maddox, The University of
Massachusetts, Amherst The French Petrarch

Paul Colilli, Laurentian University, Canada
Petrarch's Lyric Mind: Measuring the Corpus of Scholarship (1974-2003)

Concluding Remarks
Dino Cervigni


6:30 - 10:00 pm 
Cocktail hour and banquet: 
Sheraton Hotel 
Reservations required

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