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Italian Studies Bilingual International Workshop | Pico’s Library Rebuilt – La biblioteca di Pico ricostruita

The Department of Italian Studies, the Foundation for Religious Sciences John XXIII (FSciRe) and the Pico Project at Brown University present:

“Pico’s Library Rebuilt – La biblioteca di Pico ricostruita” | Bilingual international workshop

About:

Scholars of medieval and Renaissance history, philosophy and literature as well as a less specialised public are invited to attend a bilingual international workshop aimed at discussing the most recent findings on the long-lost library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494). A number of highly original papers will shed new light on the life and works of this most famous humanist, whose oeuvre includes the so-called Oration on the Dignity of Man, so often dubbed as the ‘Manifesto of the Renaissance.’

The workshop will be held online over Zoom, via the FSciRe in Bologna, on November 26 2021 at 7:30pm AEDT.
Information for remote access is provided below.

 

Schedule:

“Pico’s Library Rebuilt – La biblioteca di Pico ricostruita” (download program, pdf 847kb) 

09.30 Intervento introduttivo: Alberto Melloni (FSciRe) 

Presidenza: Massimo Riva (Brown University)

10.00 Giovanna Murano (LAMEMOLI Project, Academy of Finland-University of Jyväskylä)La biblioteca di Pico ricostruita
10.30 Daniela Gionta (Università degli Studi di Messina)Luci e ombre nell’inventario vaticano della biblioteca di Pico
11.00 Sebastiano Gentile (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale)Considerazioni in margine alla scheda su Giovanni Pico per gli «Autografi dei letterati italiani»

Presidenza: Francesco Borghesi (University of Sydney)

11.30 Brian Copenhaver (UCLA)Why ‘Humanist’ Won’t Work for Pico, a Kabbalist and Scholastic Philosopher
12.00 Amos Edelheit (Maynooth University)Reconstructing Pico’s Scholastic Library: What Can We Learn from the Apology?
12.30 Daniele Conti (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento)Nel cantiere delle Conclusiones: appunti su Pico e la biblioteca platonica di Ficino

Presidenza: Dino Buzzetti (FSciRe)

14.30 Paola Megna (Università degli Studi di Messina)Letture pichiane di testi neoplatonici

15.00 Fabio Vendruscolo (Università degli Studi di Udine)I codici greci di Pico e le sorti della biblioteca Grimani
15.30 Agata Pincelli (Australian Research Council)Per la biografia di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: un documento inedito dall’Archivio di Stato di Carpi 

Presidenza: Brian Copenhaver

16.30 Saverio Campanini (Università di Bologna)Due manoscritti ebraici monacensi dalla biblioteca di Pico

17.00 Fabrizio Lelli (Università del Salento)I collaboratori ebrei di Pico e la sua collezione libraria

17.30 Giacomo Corazzol (Università di Bologna)Le lingue orientali di Pico

18.00 La biblioteca virtuale – Toward a Pico Virtual Library. Round-table discussion/Tavola rotonda di Francesco Borghesi, Dino Buzzetti, Michael Papio (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Ernesto Priani (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) e Massimo Riva 

 

Organised by Francesco Borghesi, Dino Buzzetti, Giovanna Murano, Massimo Riva

Presented by Brown University, FSciRe and The University of Sydney

 

Free | RSVP essential

Date & time

26 November 2021 09:30 Roma (GMT+1) / 19:30 Sydney (GMT+11)

How to participate

To receive the workshop’s Zoom link and passcode, please register by writing to Francesco Borghesi: francesco.borghesi@sydney.edu.au

 

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