TELLING DESCRIBING INFORMING
The marvelous and the unheard in the early modern age
Seminar organised by S. Bozzola, C. De Caprio, F. Montuori
Naples, 23-24 May 2019
At the Società Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Napoli and the Accademia Pontaniana (Via Mezzocannone 8, 2nd floor) Naples
May 23rd
9:00 Institutional greetings
- Manfredi (Rector of University of Naples Federico II)
- De Blasi (Coord. of Modern Philology DSU Section, Federico II)
- Bozzola (DISLL Deputy Director, University of Padua)
9:30 Domenico Cecere (University of Naples Federico II), The seminar on the “marvellous” in the framework of the ERC DisComPoSE project
1st session (chaired by Nicola De Blasi, University of Naples Federico II)
Linguistic representations of the marvellous
10:00 Chiara De Caprio (University of Naples Federico II), The description of the marvellous in travel writings. I. Syntax and textuality
10:30 Sergio Bozzola (University of Padua), The description of the marvellous in travel writings. II. Rhetoric and representative models
11:00 Coffee break
2nd session (chaired by Patricia Bianchi, University of Naples Federico II)
Seeing through pictures and with words
11:30 Rita Fresu (University of Cagliari) «Pigliate il primo vicolo, che troverete in esso una cosa meravigliosa». Describe, inform, narrate in the modern age’s periegetic
12.00 Bianca de Divitiis (University of Naples Federico II), Emotions and monuments between Europe and the New World. Enthusiasm for discovery and lament for loss
12:30 Discussion
13.15 Lunch break
III session (chaired by Francesco Senatore, University of Naples Federico II)
Telling and communicating the unheard
15:00 Giancarlo Petrella (University of Naples Federico II), Communicating ‘novi et spaventevoli segni’. Disasters, wonders and wonderful effects in Italian publishing between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries
15:30 Giancarlo Alfano (University of Naples Federico II), Conjectures on a wooden leg. A famous case of imposture from the 16th century
16:00 Michele Lodone (Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice), Marvellous games of truth. Prophecies and levels of communication in early modern Italy
16:30 Discussion
24 May
IV session (chaired by Rita Librandi, University of Naples L’Orientale)
Printed non-literary Italian: information circuits and linguistic dynamics
9:30 Luca D’Onghia (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Reports, news sheets, notices: on non-literary printed Italian in the sixteenth century
10:00 Laura Ricci (University for Foreigners of Siena), “News” from the sixteenth century: information, propaganda and fake news in the news sheets of the sixteenth century
10:30 Francesco Montuori (University of Naples Federico II), Linguistic and lexical dynamics around the “compassionate tragedies” of the Kingdom
11:00 Coffee break
5th session (chaired by Laura Minervini, University of Naples Federico II)
Discursive and lexicon modality of the marvelous between prose and poetry
11:30 Fabio Romanini (University of Trieste), Pragmatic aspects, discursive modalities and textual contaminations in the navigation reports of the 15th-17th centuries
12:00 Giuseppe Polimeni (University of Milan), “Scuotea dagl’imi cardini / le mura il grande tremuoto”: events and marvels in verse, between the 16th and 18th centuries
12:30 Discussion
13:15 Lunch break
14:15 to 16:15 Seminar acquisitions and research perspectives.Meeting of the scientific committee with the DisComPoSE group
Go to an on line article about the international conference held on 23rd-24th May 2019 in Naples
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