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Invitation to a Weekend Seminar on
"ARABIC AND JUDAIC INFLUENCES IN AND AROUND DANTE ALIGHIERI"
["Influenze arabe e ebraiche 'in' e 'intorno' a Dante Alighieri"]
to be held in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College,
University of Cambridge
on Saturday 28 April 2001 10.00am-6.00pm
[Website: http://www.geocities.com/dantestudies]
OUTLINE
In various parts of the world, people are working on the question of Arabic
and Judaic influences in and around Dante.
We are looking to break new ground in this important area of Dante studies.
In the eighty-odd years since the publication of the ground-breaking work
of Miguel Asín Palacios, isolated individuals have been working with
limited resources and within limited disciplines, examining the relevant
issues.
Fortunately the climate is now beginning to change - not least in Italy.
Arabo-Italian studies, Judeo-Italian studies and trans-Mediterranean
cultural studies have become intellectually respectable and are attracting
research funding.
We are proposing to hold a small seminar, to bring together some of the
people working in this field.
We shall spend a day in Cambridge (Saturday 28 April 2001) documenting the
present state of research, and looking at new research initiatives being
developed internationally. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
Our discussions will be broad-ranging. In the longer term we aim to bring
in literature, science, music, architecture, medicine, cuisine, graphic
art, glassmaking, seafaring, etc. Some of these themes will be covered at
the Cambridge seminar.
The intention of our seminar is to build towards a full-scale conference,
to be held in Venice in October 2002.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS FOR THE SEMINAR
[Titles of papers are provisional.]
GIORGIO BATTISTONI of Verona: The Three Rings - the Judaic, Arabic and
Christian presence at the Court of Can Grande della Scala
DANIELA BOCCASSINI of Vancouver: "A Falcon Ready for the King's Hand":
Reassessing the question of Dante's Islamic sources via the medieval theory
and practice of falconry.
ED EMERY: The Trajectory of AABBBA from Ibn Quzman of Andalus, via the
Marian Laudes to Dante's "Morte villana di pietà nemica".
DEBORAH HOWARD of Cambridge: A Brief Overview: Issues in the transmission
of visual culture.
KURT V. JENSEN, of Odense, Denmark: Riccoldo of Monte Croce 1242-1320: a
Florentine Missionary among the Muslims: his "Contra legem saracenorum".
CARLO SACCONE of Padova: Dante and the Libro della Scala di Maometto - the
Book of the Ascent of Mahomet.
PAOLO SCARNECCHIA of Naples: Musical matters: Arabic musical influences in
Italy - 1150-1350.
SANDRA DEBENEDETTI STOW of Ramat Gan, Israel: "The problem of Free Will and
Divine Wisdom as a link between Dante and Medieval Jewish Thought."
This is an open seminar. There is no charge for admission, although you may
make a contribution on the day if you wish...
The papers will be delivered in Italian and English.
IF YOU WISH to register for the seminar
OR if you wish to receive the published papers of the seminar
OR if you wish to be on the mailing list for Venice October 2002, please
send your details
- by e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
- by fax to: 0870 133 0145 [from outside UK 0044 870 133 0145]
- or by post to: Ed Emery [Dante Seminar], Peterhouse, Cambridge CB2 1RD
30.i.01
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