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Annali d'Italianistica

Francis Petrarch and the European Lyric Tradition

PETRARCH SYMPOSIUM

Francesco Petrarca
1304-1374


The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March 18 – March 20, 2004


With gratitude I would like to acknowledge
the support of all those who have made this Symposium possible:
Professor Frank Dominguez, Professor Erika Lindemann,
and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures;
Senior Associate Dean Dean Darryl Gless and the College of Arts and Sciences;
Professor Ruel W. Tyson and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities;
Dr. Ruth Mitchell-Pitts and the Center for European Studies;
Professor Edward Don Kennedy and the Curriculum of Comparative Literature;
Professors John Nádas, James Haar, Tim Carter and the Music Department;
all Italian faculty and all graduate students in Italian for their support and collaboration;
the organizers of the Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, in particular Mr. Matthew Harper;
the Italian Club; the secretarial staff of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures;
finally and foremost, all participants of the Petrarch Symposium.

 

 

The Symposium is open to the public free of charge.
The registration desk will be in or just outside Toy Lounge on the fourth floor of Dey Hall. Faculty, students, and guests are welcome and are invited to register at no charge at the registration desk, where they will receive a free badge.


Dino S. Cervigni, The Symposium’s Organizer, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Thursday, March 18

INAUGURAL SESSION: TOY LOUNGE

4:30-5:30

Dino S. Cervigni, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Introductory remarks

Erika Lindemann, Interim Chair, Romance Languages and Literatures
Welcome

Presider, Darryl Gless, Senior Associate Dean
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Plenary Speaker:
Gordon Braden
, University of Virginia
Petrarch and Wyatt


5:30-7:00: DEY 305
Session: The Petrarchan Canzoniere’s Lyric Strategies
Chair,
Simona Muratore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speakers
1. Jennifer Pendergrass, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Un lungo error: The Petrarch-Persona’s Labyrinth in RVF 211
2. Scott Youngdahl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“ Solea lontana in sonno consolarme” (RVF 250: 1): Madonna in the Petrarch-Persona’s Dreams
3. Michael Farina, University of Connecticut
The Canzoniere and Petrarch’s Reader: Desire, Pity, and the Lyric I
4. Jocelyn Dawson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When You Are Old: Petrarch’s “Se la mia vita da l’aspro tormento,” Ronsard’s “Quand vous serez bien vielle,” and Yeats’s “When you are old”

7:00-7:30 TOY LOUNGE: Reception

Friday, March 19
8:00-9:00
Continental breakfast


9:00-10:30
TOY LOUNGE

Petrarch and Boccaccio: Dialogizing Scholars and Friends
Chair, Ennio Rao,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speakers

1. Simone Marchesi, Princeton University
Tra filologia e retorica: Petrarca e Boccaccio di fronte al nuovo Livio
2. Kristina Olson, Columbia University
“ Concivis meus”: Petrarch’s Rerum memorandarum libri, Boccaccio’s
Decameron 6.9, and the Writing of Florentine History
3. Elsa Filosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Petrarca, Boccaccio e le mulieres clarae: dalla Familiares XXI, 8 al De mulieribus claris

PLENARY SESSION: TOY LOUNGE
10:45-11:45

Presider, Rosa P. Perelmuter

Plenary Speaker:
Anne J. Cruz
, The University of Miami
“ Verme morir entre memorias tristes”: Petrarch, Garcilaso, and the Poetics of Memory

12:00-1:30 Lunch break

1:30-2:50: TOY LOUNGE
Renaissance Petrarchism in Italy and France
Chair, Sara Sturm Maddox
, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1. Fiora Bassanese, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Gaspara Stampa’s Petrarchan Commemorations
2. JoAnn DellaNeva, University of Notre Dame
An Exploding Canon: Petrarch and the Petrarchists in the French
Renaissance
3. Deborah Lesko Baker, Georgetown University
Petrarchan Subjectivity in the French Lyric

3:00-4:20: TOY LOUNGE
Petrarch and 19th-20th Century Poetry

Chair: Roberto Dainotto, Duke University
Speakers
1. Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mixing Memory and Desire: Leopardi Reading Petrarch
2. Ernesto Livorni, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Italian Hermetic Poetry and the Renewal of the Petrarchan Tradition
3. Joseph Luzzi, Bard College
Italy’s Broken Heart: Petrarch and the Romantic Body Politic

4:30-6:00
PLENARY SESSION: DEY HALL 305
Petrarch and Music
Presider: Giuseppe Gerbino
, Columbia University
John Nádas, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Poetry and Music in Late Trecento Florence
James Haar, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A Musical Accompaniment to Petrarchan lezioni at the Accademia Fiorentina

6:00-7:00
Reception: Toy Lounge

7:15-7:45 Pre-Concert Lecture
Tim Carter, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hill Hall Auditorium

8:00: Petrarchan Concert (Tickets: $15 General Admission; $12 Seniors; $5 Students)
Place: Hill Hall Auditorium

Title:
“ At Looser Hours in the Shade: Petrarchan Songs and Echoes”
Description:
A program of seventeenth-century virtuoso solo songs for bass voice and chitarrone, with music by Claudio Monteverdi, Sigismondo d'India, Jacopo Peri, Giovan Domenico Puliaschi, Henry Purcell, John Blow and William Lawes.

Performers:
Richard Wistreich (bass), Nigel North (chitarrone, lutes)
Richard Wistreich (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) is one of the leading bass singers of his generation, well known for his work, and recordings, with the Consort of Musicke and, more recently, as an exponent of songs and operatic roles for solo bass. Nigel North (Indiana University, Bloomington IN) is perhaps the finest exponent of plucked string instruments of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and also renowned as a continuo accompanist.

Saturday, March 20
8:00-8:45
Continental breakfast


8:45-10:15: TOY LOUNGE

Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Petrarchan Influences
Chair: Lisa Mason
, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1. Anita Park, Indiana University, Bloomington
Lyric Non-Sequiturs: The Making of a Fragmented Diary
2. Susanna Barsella, Georgetown University
Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Life of Saint Peter Damian.
The Figure of the Poet Between Asceticism and Civic Commitment
3. Matteo Soranzo, University of Wisconsin
Percorsi volgari dell’elegia neolatina. Il canone letterario umanista e il culto di Petrarca
4. Kristina Varade, New York University
Lady Morgan’s The Wild Irish Girl: Petrarchan Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Literature

PLENARY SESSION: TOY LOUNGE
10:30-12:15

Presider, Ron Witt, Duke University

Plenary Speakers:
Michelangelo Picone
, The University of Zürich, Switzerland
The Structure of Petrarch’s Canzoniere

Karlheinz Stierle, The University of Constance, Germany
A Manifesto of New Singing: The Group of Canzoni 125-129 in Petrarch's Canzoniere

12:30-2:00 Lunch break

2:00-3:00: TOY LOUNGE
Petrarch’s Influence in the Renaissance and Beyond
Chair, Lance Lazar
, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1. Thomas E. Mussio, Iona College
Petrarch’s Phoenix in Marino’s Adone
2. Michael Moore, Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations
Can the Canzone sing in English?

3:00-4:15: Dey 305
Reading Petrarch’s Canzoniere
Chair, Simone Marchesi
, Princeton University
1. Thomas E. Peterson, University of Georgia
The Fabulous Petrarch: The “prima raccolta” (1342) as the Source of the Fabulous in Petrarch’s RVF
2. Silvia Ruffo Fiore, University of South Florida
Petrarch’s Art of Mythopoesis: The Time-Timelessness Dichotomy in Madrigal #52
3. Dino Cervigni, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Petrarchan Lover’s Discourse: An Augustinian Semiotic Approach to the Canzoniere


PLENARY SESSION: TOY LOUNGE
4:30-6:15
Presider, Valeria Finucci
, Duke University
Plenary Speakers:
Sara Sturm Maddox, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The French Petrarch

Paul Colilli, Laurentian University, Canada
Petrarch's Lyric Mind: Measuring the Corpus of Scholarship (1974-2003)

Concluding Remarks
Dino Cervigni


6:30 - 10:00 pm
Cocktail hour and banquet:
Sheraton Hotel
Reservations required