Speakers: Amos Edelheit, Simon Gilson, David Lines, Letizia Panizza, Ben Thomson, David Zagoury
What was the relationship between Latin and the vernacular in fifteenth-century Italy? How was the vernacular able to establish itself as an acceptable language for literary or scholarly writing? Did the process of vernacularization differ across disciplines? Did authors who wrote in Latin and the vernacular write differently, or with different target audiences in mind? This conference will address itself to such questions arising out of the emergence of la volgar linguaas a fitting medium for literary and scholarly endeavours at the end of the fifteenth century.
To register please contact Tony Mann. The registration fee for the conference (which includes lunch, tea and coffee) is £25.
Latin and the Vernacular in Fifteenth-Century Italy
PROGRAMME
10.30 – 11.00 Registration and welcome
11.00-13.00
Amos Edelheit, Maynooth University, Ireland: “Two Approaches to Medicine and Philosophy: Nicoletto Vernia and Marsilio Ficino”
David A. Lines, University of Warwick: “Bolognese Culture and the Vernacular in the Fifteenth Century.”
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.00
David A. Lines, University of Warwick: “Bolognese Culture and the Vernacular in the Fifteenth Century.”
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.00
Simon Gilson, University of Warwick: “Cristoforo Landino and the Volgare.”
Ben Thomson, Birkbeck, University of London: “Cristoforo Landino’s Allegorisation of Vice in the Disputationes Camaldulenses and Comento sopra la Comedia.”
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.30
David Zagoury, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome: “Imaginatione: Trajectory of a Vernacular Term circa 1500.”
Letizia Panizza, Emerita, Royal Holloway, University of London: “The Tower of Babel: Linguistic Chaos in Fifteenth-Century Italy”
17.00 Conference ends
