The Department of French & Italian presents a lecture by
Sergio Zatti
L'avventura del cavaliere rinascimentale
Friday, February
29, 2008
2:30 pm
College Arts & Humanities
Institute
1211 E. Atwater Ave
This talk, presented in Italian, will focus on the turning point the Renaissance epic has represented for the concept of adventure, especially in relation to the Greek and Arthurian novel. Professor Zatti will examine the evolution of this concept until its exhaustion in the nineteenth and twentieth-century novel.
Sergio Zatti trained at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and has taught at Genoa University and Pisa University, where he is a professor in history of literary criticism. He has served as visiting professor at many universities in the United States, including Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago, Yale and, at the present time, Harvard. His field of research is mainly Italian literature of the 16th century, with a particular emphasis on knightly epics. His publications on this subject include the volumes L'uniforme cristiano e il multiforme pagano: Saggio sulla Gerusalemme liberata (1983), Il Furioso fra epos e romanzo (1990) and L'ombra del Tasso (1996). More recently his researche has also included an investigation of the genre of autobiography, and he has published an essay on childhood memoirs that will become part of a future book.
Sponsored by the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund of the Department of French & Italian and the Renaissance Studies Program.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accom-modations can be made to meet most needs. Please call 855-5458.
