Ariosto: After 500 years: A Symposium
On the occasion of the fifth centenary of the publication of the Orlando Furioso, the City University of New York and New York University in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Columbia University, Department of Italian, are organizing an international symposium attended by eminent scholars, both Italian and American, on the relevance of the poem in the literary history and as a source of inspiration for visual arts and music. Speakers: Karina Attar, Luigi Ballerini, John Bidwell, Lina Bolzoni, Federica Caneparo, JoAnn Cavallo, Daniela D'Eugenio, Wendy Heller, Alessandro Giammei, Bettina Lerner, Dennis Looney, David Quint, Eugenio Refini, Joshua Reid, Antonio Ricci, Brian Richardson, Melissa Swain, Jane Tylus and Sergio Zatti.
A rich calendar of events is taking place between October 17 and 21 at: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU, Italian Cultural Institute, The Morgan Library and Museum, PrPh Books and The Graduate Center CUNY.
Conference Co-Sponsors
Co-sponsored by Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU, the NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center, the NYU Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Renaissance Society of America, the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center, The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, the Doctoral Students’ Council at the Graduate Center, the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation, the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College, and the Department of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College.
La Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo si svolge sotto l'Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana.
For more information and to view the program click HERE
Ariosto After 500 Years will take place from October 17 to October 21, 2016, at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Italian Cultural Institute, Morgan Library and Museum, PrPh Books, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Click here for the complete program of events.
