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Dear collegues,
I would like to bring to your attention the study day organized by the
Leopardi Centre in Birmingham, taking place on Wednesday 11th
February. Everybody
is warmly invited to attend.
Many thanks
Paola Cori
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*Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone di pensieri: *
*Meaning, Aim(s), Readings*
* *
*The Leopardi Centre at Birmingham* is holding a study-day on Giacomo
Leopardi and his *Zibaldone di pensieri*. Four researchers from within and
outside the Italian Department will give papers on aspects of history,
reception, sources and approaches to the *Zibaldone*;* *final year students
will present and discuss their dissertation work.
The day will end with the launch of Cosetta Veronese's *The Reception of
Giacomo Leopardi in the Nineteenth Century: Italy's Greatest Poet after
Dante? *presented by Prof. Michael Caesar.**
* *
Wednesday, 11th February 2009, 10.00 am-4.00 pm
Physics West, Seminar room 1, University of Birmingham
Programme:
**
10.00-10.15 Coffee and Welcome
10.15-10.45 *The Zibaldone: a Greenhouse and a Legacy***
Cosetta Veronese (University of Birmingham)
10.45-11.15 *Leopardi's **Zibaldone as autonomous text*
Emanuela Cervato (Nottingham Trent University)
* *
11.45-12.00 *La caduta delle ultime illusioni nella Storia del genere
umano***
Valentina Pucci**
12.00-12.15 *The myth of the fall in the **Operette morali** *
Judith Allan
12.15-12.30 *Una riflessione sulla morte come lutto e tragedia senza
significato*
Elena Capucci
12.30-12.45 *Anatomia dell'amore in Leopardi*
Linda Moschi
1.00-2.00 Refreshments
2.00-2.30 *From Clarity to Memory in the Writing of the Zibaldone*
Paola Cori (University of Birmingham)
2.30-3.00 *Quotations and Fragmentariness in the **Zibaldone*
Fabio Camilletti (ICI Berlin-University of Birmingham)
3.00 Prof. Michael Caesar presents the volume by Cosetta Veronese:
*The Reception of Giacomo Leopardi in the Nineteenth Century: *
*Italy's Greatest Poet after Dante?** *
Final discussion
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