Leon Battista Alberti's Apologi: Problems and Interpretations of a Humanist Text

Friday, March 28, 2003
2:30 pm
Ballantine Hall 148

In this presentation, Italian graduate student Stefano Gulizia will examine how Alberti reads the classics, and how he might be read as a classic. Preparing a new critical edition and translation of his collection of tales, Gulizia will briefly look at the textual transmission and the sources, with reference to the place of Alberti in fifteenth-century Latin Humanism. A main point of discussion will be the genealogy of brevitas as a generative figure of style. Finally, he will look at why we might find a neoplatonic reading puzzling. The presentation will be followed by discussion and refreshments.

If you have a disability and need assistance, special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Contact Isabel Piedmont at (812) 855-5458 or ipiedmon@indiana.edu