Past Events



Witches and Fairies before and after Ariosto

Apr 13, 2017 - Apr 14, 2017 at -

 

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the publication of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, the Center for Italian Studies at University of Pennsylvania celebrates the poet with an international…



Italian, Latin, and Hebrew: Jewish Bankers’ Multilingualism and Sociopolitical Space in 15th Century Tuscany

Apr 6, 2017 at

Cedric Cohen Skalli, University of Haifa, will discuss the multilingualism and the social and political space of Jewish bankers' families in 15th century Tuscany.

 

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The Meaning of Philosophical Diagrams in Early Modern Books

Apr 5, 2017 at

Josef Matula, Palacký University, will discuss the role of illustrations in early modern philosophical treatises.

 

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Patronage and Propaganda in Quattrocento Humanism: Francesco Filelfo for Duke and Pope

Mar 28, 2017 at

Jeroen De Keyser, University of Leuven, will discuss Francesco Filelfo's propagandistic writings in his letters and in works from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

 

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Like Arms and Armors: Jesuit Books and Libraries in Early Modernity

Mar 22, 2017 at

Rescheduled! Now, 22 March

Natale Vacalebre will present his book "Come le armadure e l'armi". Per una…



An Aesthetics of Contingency: Postwar Rome, and the Margins of Modernism

Feb 28, 2017 at

A lecture by Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania, on the transposability of images. New time, 5pm!

 

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Performing Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea Today

Feb 22, 2017 at

On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi's birth (1567), Italian conductor and harpsychordist Rinaldo Alessandrini will discuss aspects of "Performing Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea …



Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida: Composition, Circulation, Reception

Feb 16, 2017 at

Marco Aresu, Wesleyan University, will discuss Giovanni Boccaccio's autograph of the Teseida in relation to two important exemplars of the poem at UPenn and Cambridge.

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INFLUX

Jan 18, 2017 at

Director Luca Vullo will present INFLUX, his documentary on Italians in London in Brexit times. The film is a contender to the 2017…



New Italian Cinema 2016

Dec 1, 2016 - Dec 4, 2016 (All Day)

A free-admission film festival organized by the Cinema and Media Studies Program and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia…