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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear colleagues, I am delighted to invite you to the following event, which is part of our research seminar series. On 6th February at 5.30pm (UCL Italian, Foster Court 351) Federica Pich will present a paper on “Petrarch, the lyric and the reader”. Renaissance books of poetry display only sparse, indirect and fragmentary images of their readers. Prefaces, avvisi ai lettori and dedicatory letters reflect on the aims and effects of lyric poetry, whose moral content and influence are discussed also in academic lectures and treatises on poetics. Whenever Petrarch is mentioned in these texts or in fact becomes their main object, what seems to be at stake is the essence of the lyric genre tout court. In the context of the AHRC-funded project Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy (c.1350-c.1650), this paper focuses on the moral effects, the dangers and benefits of reading Petrarch’s Canzoniere described and debated in sixteenth-century commentaries, academic lectures and treatises. Federica Pich is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Leeds. Her research work has focused mainly on lyric poetry, Ariosto, and the relationship between literature and visual arts in the Renaissance. She published a monograph, I poeti davanti al ritratto. Da Petrarca a Marino (2010), and edited an annotated anthology of poems on portraits, in collaboration with Lina Bolzoni (Poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento, 2008). Her current research project, Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy (c. 1350-c. 1650), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), is a collaboration between the universities of Oxford, Leeds, Manchester, and the John Rylands Research Institute. Kind regards, Carlotta Dr. Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti Lecturer in Italian history Department of Italian (SELCS) UCL [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies