Leonardo da Vinci Society: Latin and the Vernacular in Fifteenth-Century Italy


A one-day conference organised by the Leonardo da Vinci Society, to be held at the Warburg Institute, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0AB, 11.00-17.00 on Friday 1 December 2017.

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

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