Crossroads of Knowledge: Italy and the Republic of Letters
October 14/15, UC Berkeley, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Organized by Vincenza Perdichizzi (Université de Strasbourg) and Diego Pirillo (UC Berkeley)
With the support of the of the France-Berkeley Fund, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Rems, the UC Berkeley DE in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
Friday 14
1.00pm
Diego Pirillo (UC Berkeley), Introduction
Annamaria di Giorgio (Director, Italian Cultural Institute of SF), Welcome Address
1.15-2.15
Chair and respondent: Massimo Mazzotti (UC Berkeley)
Kristen Keach (UC Berkeley), Between Words and Images: How Diego Valadés Read Dante's Commedia
Zhonghua Wang (UC Berkeley), Daniello Bartoli’s China: Jesuit Information Networks and the Republic of Letters across Eurasia
2.15-4.15
Chair and respondent: Thomas Dandelet (UC Berkeley)
Stefania Tutino (UCLA), The Roman Curia and the Republic of Letters: Authors, Publishers, and Censors
Giorgio Caravale (University of Rome), Forbidden Books and the Republic of Letters
Daniel Stolzenberg,(UC Davis) Between Westphalia and Enlightenment: Catholic Scholars and Dutch Bookmen during the Papacy of Alexander VII
4.15-4.30 coffee break
4.30-6.00
Chair: Diego Pirillo (UC Berkeley)
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), Cesare Baronio and the Republic of Letters
Keynote lecture.
Respondent: Gemma Tronfi (UC Berkeley)
7.00 Dinner
Saturday 15
9.00am breakfast
9.30-11.00
Chair and respondent: Jonathan Sheehan (UC Berkeley)
Anahit Manoukian (UC Berkeley) Playwrights and Critics: Theater Culture in Eighteenth-Century Madrid and Naples
Filippo Sambugaro (Université de Strasbourg) The Anglo-Tuscan Republic of Letters: Antonio Montucci in 18th century England
Christopher Geary (UC Berkeley), World Literature and the Early Modern Republic of Letters
11.00-12.30
Chair and respondent: Stefania Tutino (UCLA)
Thomas Dandelet (UC Berkeley), The Empire of Letters in 17th Century Sicily: Filadelfo Mugnos, Humanist Historian of the Sicilian Nobility
Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford University), Of Books and Horses: Traveling in the late Republic of Letters
12.30-1.30 Catered lunch
1.30-3.00
Chair and respondent: Ethan Shagan (UC Berkeley)
Deborah Blocker (UC Berkeley),The Alterati of Florence (1569-ca.1630): a localized and secluded Republic of Letters?
Vincenza Perdichizzi (Université de Strasbourg), The Battle Against the Books and the Italian Way to Modernity
3.00-3.15 coffee break
3.15-4.45
Chair: Vincenza Perdichizzi, (Université de Strasbourg)
Paula Findlen, (Stanford University), Francesco Algarotti’s Newtonianism for Ladies: The Imagined Community of Women and an Eighteenth-Century Bestseller
Keynote lecture
Respondent: Sally Tucker (UC Berkeley)
4.45-5.15 Final discussion and conclusion