On April 1, at 6:30 pm., at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, a group of doctoral students will come together to present Italian poetry of Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, Michelangelo, Tasso, Foscolo, and Leopardi up to Campana and Luzi.
The studies by students from various American universities, establish stratified associations with diverse disciplines. They open a relational space in which medieval, modern, and contemporary lyric poetry interacts with philosophy (Aristotle and Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism: Plotinus; Vico, and Hegel), history, and ethnology. Moreover, what emerges from their readings is the result of a more specific, focused attempt to activate a challenging interaction between the emotional-sentimental sphere and the intellectual-erudite.
The speakers are the following: Shane Manieri, CUNY Graduate Center, who will present Painting in the Soul: The Liminal Space Between Emotions and Poetic Imagery in Cavalcanti’s Sonnets; Fabio Caredda, NYU, who will focus on Warlpiri Dreams and the Expressiveness of Sensible through Words: The Conception of an Existential Territory in the Poems of the Vita Nuova; Filippo Fabbricatore, CUNY Graduate Center, who will give a speech on «Mentre ch’al corpo l’alma non è tolta»: Michelangelo’s Earthly Quest for Absolute, from Neoplatonism to “Non Finito”; Stefano Scandella, NYU, who will present Corporeal Imagination: Poíesis and Self-Knowledge in the Mythopoetic Tradition; Nara Aligulova, NYU, who will focus on Tracing Anti-Colonialism in the Writings of Giacomo Leopardi; Leonardo Campaner, NYU, who will talk about “Pazzi Sublimi.” For a Reading of Dino Campana’s Orphic Songs through the Lyric Poetry of Torquato Tasso; and Michele Morelli, Princeton University, who will give a speech on Mediation and negation in Mario Luzi’s Avvento Notturno.
You can register at the following link.
