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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
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