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The Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute
University of Pennsylvania Center for Italian Studies
Department
of Romance Languages, School of Arts and Sciences
College of General
Studies
- Florence
Summer Program, Department of English, and Department
of Classical Studies
Italian Consulate General in Philadelphia
The Complete Petrarch:
A Life’s Work (1304-1374)
The First Annual Joseph and
Elda Coccia Centennial
Celebration
of Italian Culture at the
Penn, University of Pennsylvania,
Center for Italian Studies
april 16-17, 2004
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Italy’s greatest
lyric poet bequeathed to posterity not only the most beautiful sonnets
ever written in the
Florentine vernacular, but an astonishing array of other literary writings.
Letters, orations, invectives, biographies, treatises, dialogues--they
are less remembered because he composed them in Latin. On the seven-hundredth
anniversary of his birth, at the University of Pennsylvania an international
group of scholars will gather to commemorate “The Complete Petrarch.” Restoring
the nearly forgotten pieces to an equal footing with the most famous
ones, each speaker will present a different Petrarchan text, proposing
answers to the question, “Quid est?” “Che cos’è?” What
is it? Rather than look back at Petrarch through the filter of his fame,
or think about him comparatively, in his relationship with authors whom
he influenced, we wish to lay out his life’s works within a chronological
frame of reference centered on the culture and creative genius of Petrarch
himself.
For the occasion the director and curators of our
Van Pelt Library Rare Book Collection are organizing a major exhibit, “Petrarch at 700,” in
collaboration with Cornell University Library and the Fiske Petrarch
Collection. Our Welcoming Reception on Friday, April 16 at 6:00 P.M.
will take place in the Rosenwald Gallery in Van Pelt Library for this
exhibit and mark its opening.
Following the conference, papers by participants will be published in
a commemorative volume, The Complete Petrarch: A Life’s Work (1304-1374).
friday, april
16th
Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall
in the Chemistry Building
231 South 34th Street
| 1:00 pm |
Petrarch’s Early
Humanism, the Commitment to Latin
Presider: Joseph Farrell (University
of Pennsylvania)
Ronald Witt (Duke University),
The Lives of Famous Men: De viris illustribus
Kevin Brownlee (University
of Pennsylvania),
The Epic: Africa
Paolo Cherchi (Università di
Ferrara),
The Poet as Encyclopedist: Rerum memorandarum libri
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| 3:15 pm |
Coronation and Spiritual Crisis
Presider: Simone Marchesi (Princeton
University)
Dennis Looney (University
of Pittsburgh),
Orationes: The Coronation Oration
David Marsh (Rutgers University),
Secretum
E. Ann Matte, (University of Pennsylvania),
The Penitential Psalms
Theodore
Cachey (University of Notre Dame),
Itinerarium ad sepulchrum domini nostri
Yehsu Christi
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friday, april 16th
Rosenwald Gallery, Sixth floor, Van Pelt Library
3421 Woodland Walk
| 6:00 pm |
Conference
Reception
Welcoming Remarks
Millicent Marcus (Director of the Center for Italian
Studies
Joseph Coccia (President
of the Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute
Carlos Alonso (Chair
of the Department of Romance Languages
Rebecca Bushnell (Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Joseph Farrell (Associate
Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Nicoletta Marini (Cultural
Attaché of
the Italian Consulate General in
Philadelphia
Michael Ryan (Director
of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Victoria Kirkham (University
of Pennsylvania
Conference Introduction
“The Complete Petrarch: Posterity Answers a Letter”
Petrarchan madrigals
sung by Mary Therese Royal de Martinez
Harpsichordist, Barbara Weiss
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saturday, april
17th
Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall in the Chemistry Building
231 South 34th Street
| 9:15 am |
Contemplative Serenity
Presider: Victoria Kirkham (University of Pennsylvania)
Stefano Carrai (Università di
Siena),
Pastoral
Poems: Bucolicum carmen
Armando Maggi (University of Chicago),
De
vita solitaria
Felix Asiedu (University of Pennsylvania),
De otio religioso
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| 11:15 am |
Life’s Turbulence
Presider: Pier Massimo Forni (Johns
Hopkins University)
Timothy
Kircher (Guilford College), Fortune Fair and Foul: De remediis utriusque
Fortune
Stefano Cracolici (University of Pennsylvania),
The Art of Invective: Invective contra medicum
William J. Kennedy (Cornell University),
The
Art of Invective: De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia
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| 2:15 pm |
The Vernacular
Poet
Presider: Robert M. Durling (University
of California at Santa Cruz, Emeritus)
Teodolinda
Barolini (Columbia University), A
Lyric Sequence: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Fabio Finotti (Università di
Trieste),
Triumphi
Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago),
“Rime disperse”
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| 4:30 pm |
Petrarch
the Epistler
Presider: Millicent Marcus (University
of Pennsylvania)
Ronald Martinez (Brown University), A
Book of Private Letters: Liber sine nomine
Giuseppe Velli (Università Statale
di Milano),
Epystole
Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University),
Familiares
David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania),
Epistole seniles, “Griseldis”
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