Fifth International Dante Seminar

		Fifth International Dante Seminar Dante lirico e etico Somerville College and Taylor Institution University of Oxford 20-22 September 2007 This Fifth Edition of the International Dante Seminar will be dedicated to the memory of Amilcare Iannucci, one of the original founders of the IDS, and Francesco Mazzoni, who as President of the Società Dantesca Italiana, worked closely with the IDS. Programme
See the associated exhitibition Italy’s Three Crowns at the Bodleian Library		Thursday 20 September 2007 11.00 am -1.00 pm: Resident congressisti check in at Somerville College 1.00 pm: Conference opens: Registration in the Taylor Institution, St Giles 2.15 pm: Prof. Z. G. Baranski: Welcome Session 1: DANTE THE ETHICAL POET Chair: Prof. John C. Barnes (Dublin) 2.30 – 5.00 pm Claire Honess (Leeds) ‘Salus, Venus, Virtus: Poetry, Politics and Ethics from the De vulgari eloquentia to the Commedia’ Robin Kirkpatrick and George Corbett (Cambridge) ‘“E lascia pur grattar”: Language, narrative and ethics in the Commedia’ Paolo Falzone (Rome) (Paget Toynbee Lecture) ‘Desiderio naturale di sapere, nobiltà dell’anima e grazia divina nel IV trattato del Convivio’ 5.15 pm: Reception (Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution)		The IDS would like to express its warmest gratitude to the following institutions for their generous support: the British Academy; Cambridge University; the Devers Dante Fund, University of Notre Dame; the Italian Cultural Institute London; The Italianist; the MHRA; Oxford University; Princeton University; the Simpson Program in Medieval Studies, University of Mary Washington; Società Dantesca Italiana; the Society for Italian Studies; the Paget Toynbee Fund, Oxford University; the University of Western Australia.
		Friday 21 September 2007 Session 2: DANTE THE LYRIC POET Chair: Prof. Peter Hainsworth (Oxford) 9.00 am – 12.00 pm Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford) ‘La performance della Vita nova’ Claudio Giunta (Trento) ‘Dante: l'amore come destino’ Justin Steinberg (Chicago) (Paget Toynbee Lecture) ‘Dante's first dream between reception and allegory: The response to Dante da Maiano in the Vita nuova’ 12.30 pm: LUNCH 1.45 - 2.15 pm: Special Session Prue Shaw (London): 'The Monarchia: an electronic edition on DVD-Rom’ Session 3: DANTE AND THE ECLOGUES Chair: Prof. Lino Pertile (Harvard) 2.30 – 5.00 pm Paola Allegretti (Perugia) ‘Dante Tityrus annosus’ Claudia Villa (Bergamo) ‘Il problema dello stile umile (e il riso di Dante)’ *5.30 - 7.00 pm: Visit to the Tre Corone* exhibition and Reception (Bodleian Library)**
		Saturday 22 September 2007 Session 4: DANTE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Chair: Prof. Ted Cachey (Notre Dame) 9.00 am – 12.00 pm Michael Caesar (Birmingham) 'Dante, Leopardi and The City of Dreadful Night' John Lindon (London) ‘The British contribution 19th-century Dante studies: Edward Moore and the text of the Divina Commedia' 1.00 pm: LUNCH CONFERENCE ENDS Those wishing to attend the conference without board and lodging should email the organizers: they will be able to pay at the door (conference fees are as follows):- Full Conference fee: £70 Reduced Conference fee (students and unwaged): £30 Organizers' email addresses: zgb20@cam.ac.uk martin.mclaughlin@magd.ox.ac.uk