The Department of French & Italian presents a lecture by
Paolo Cherchi
Verso la chiusura. Saggio sul Canzoniere di Petrarca
Friday, March
21, 2008
3:30 pm
College Arts & Humanities
Institute
1211 E. Atwater Ave.
CANCELLED 3-21-08 Paolo Cherchi is professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Chicago and professor of romance philology at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He will present his new book which focuses on the controversial closing of Petrarch's main poetic work, the Canzoniere. The talk will be in English.
Professor Cherchi is a specialist of medieval, renaissance, and baroque literature. His interests include Romance philology, textual criticism, and comparative literature. His books and edited collections include: Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love (University of Toronto Press, 1994); La metamorfosi dell 'Adone (Longo Editore, Ravenna, 1996); ed. of Tomaso Garzoni, La Piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo (Turin, Einaudi, 2 vols., 1996); Polimatia di riuso - Mezzo secolo di plagio (1539-1589), (Bulzoni Editore, "L'Europa delle Corti", 1998); L'alambicco in bilioteca: distillati rari (Ravenna, Longo, 2000); Ministorie di microgeneri ( Ravenna, Longo, 2003); and Il re Adone (Palermo, Sellerio, 1998). In the same period he has also edited three volumes of the Susan and Donald Mazzoni Seminar, and published one hundred fifteen essays and book reviews.
The presentation will be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Sponsored by the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund of the Department of French & Italian with support from the Department of Comparative Literature.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accom-modations can be made to meet most needs. Please call 855-5458.
