conference program for The Body in Early Modern Italy

The Body in Early Modern Italy

The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
17-19 October 2002

Thursday 17 October 10-11 am           Conference Registration and Coffee

Thursday 17 October 11 am-12:30 pm
Chair: Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Body and Book: Petrarch's Poetics of Incorporation"
Luca Marcozzi, University of Rome 3, "L'immagine del corpus carcer nel Canzoniere di Petrarca"
Ronald L. Martinez, Brown University, "Petrarch's Lame Leg (Fam. XXI. 10-11; Variae 25) and the Corpus of Cicero: The First Crisis of Italian Renaissance Humanism?

Thursday 17 October 12:30-2 pm         Lunch Break

Thursday 17 October 2-3:30 pm
Chair: Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania
Michelle A. Laughran, St. Joseph's College of Maine, "Regulating Bodies: Public Health and Social Control in Sixteenth-Century Venice"
Laura J. McGough, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, "Purifying the Body Politic: Venice's Response to Syphilis"
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University, "Governing the Tongue: The Discipline of Foul Language in Early Modern Venice"

Thursday 17 October 3:30-4 pm         Coffee Break

Thursday 17 October 4-5:30 pm
Chair: Susan Forscher Weiss, Peabody Institute
Maria Galli Stampino, University of Miami, "Giraldi Cinzio's Body in/of the Text"
Lenore Kitts, University of California, Berkeley, "Signing While Singing to Italian Elites"
D. Medina Lasansky, Cornell University, "Body Elision: Acting out the Passion at the Italian Sacri Monti"

Thursday 17 October 6-8 pm         Opening Reception

Friday 18 October 9-10:30 am
Chair: Pier Massimo Forni, Johns Hopkins University
Allison Levy, Wheaton College, "Dismantled Bodies: A Reconsideration of 'Renaissance Man'"
Roni Weinstein, Tel-Aviv and Beer-Shevah Universities, "Body and Sexuality in Jewish-Italian Communities in Early Modernity
Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley, "Like a Virgin: Fantasies of the Male Body in Orlando furioso, 27-29"

Friday 18 October 10:30-11 am              Coffee Break

Friday 18 October 11 am-12:30 pm
Chair: John McLucas, Towson University
Carole Collier Frick, Southern Illinois University, "Packaged to Sell: Brides' Bodies in Fifteenth-Century Florence"
Jeanette Kohl, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, "Icons of Chastity-Objets d'amour: Female Renaissance Portrait Busts as Ambivalent Bodies"
Julia L. Hairston, University of Rome "La Sapienza", "Body Talk in the Lyric of Tullia d'Aragona"

Friday 18 October 12:30-2 pm              Lunch Break

Friday 18 October 2-3:30 pm
Chair: Alan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University
Frances Gage, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "'Exercising No Care for the Body': Recovering the Lost Art of Gymnastics in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy"
Sandra Schmidt, Free University of Berlin, "'Sauter et voltiger en l'air': The Art of Movement in Late Renaissance Italy and France"

Friday 18 October 3:30-4 pm               Coffee Break

Friday 18 October 4-5:30 pm
Chair: Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Princeton University
Sergius Kodera, University of Vienna, "Nymphomaniac Matter: The Prostitute As Metaphor for the Body in Italian Renaissance Philosophy"
Rebecca Anne Wright, New York University, "The Erotics of Rape: Masculinity, Violence, and Social Order in Lorenzo Venier's Trentuno della Zaffetta"
Daniela Bohde, University of Frankfurt, "Creating the Erotic Body: Titian's Sensuous Nudes and the Art of the Venetian Courtesan"

Saturday 19 October 9-10:30 am
Chair: Mary E. Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
Claudia Pancino, University of Bologna, "Rappresentazione e descrizione del corpo umano fra XVI e XVIII secoli in Italia"
Daniel Brownstein, UCLA, "Revealing Vitality in Sixteenth-Century Anatomy"
Lucia Dacome, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, "Tangible Dismemberment: Unveiling the Body in Eighteenth-Century Italy"

Saturday 19 October 10:30-11 am         Coffee Break

Saturday 19 October 11 am-12:30 pm
Chair: Stephen Campbell, Johns Hopkins University
Deanna Shemek, University of California, Santa Cruz, "'Una cortella al cuore': Heartsickness and the Ailing Body in Isabella d'Este's Familiar Letters"
Livio Pestilli, Trinity College, Rome Campus, "'Col bossolo e col bastone:' On the representation of the Disabled Body in Renaissance and Baroque Italy"
Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach, "Technologies of Titillation in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Giovanni Bianchi's Account of Catterina Vizzani's Autopsy"

Saturday 19 October 12:30-2 pm              Lunch Break

Saturday 19 October 2-3:30 pm
Chair: Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh
Annick Paternoster, University of Leeds, "La corporalità nella seconda redazione del Cortegiano di Baldassar Castiglione, ovvero ritratto del cortigiano scortese"
Barbara Kuhn, University of Muenster, "Dal corpo 'come carcere' alla 'legge della carne': la corporalità dell'uomo negli Eroici furori di Giordano Bruno"
Clarissa Hurley, University of Toronto, "Vexed Bodies: The Arlecchino Figure in Early Commedia dell'arte Iconography"

Saturday 19 October 4-5:30 pm
Chair: Leslie Zarker Morgan, Loyola College in Maryland
Suzanne Magnanini, University of Colorado, "'Un figliuolo nato porco': Beastly Bodies and Animal Anxieties in Straparola's Il re porco"
Walter Stephens, The Johns Hopkins University, "Ficino's Devilish Dilemma: Demonic Bodies and Human-Demon Interaction"
George Ferzoco, University of Leicester, "The Massa Marittima Penis Tree"

Saturday 19 October 8 pm                Closing Dinner