Reclaiming ‘Provincialism’ Through Poetry and Translation: From 19th-Century ‘Dialect Poets’ to Present-Day ‘Transplantations’ into Minority Languages
Italian Studies Research Seminar Series Reclaiming ‘Provincialism’ Through Poetry and Translation: From 19th-Century ‘Dialect Poets’ to Present-Day ‘Transplantations’ into Minority Languages Speaker: Valentina Gosetti, University of New England Throughout Italian and French literary history, various poets have reacted in creative and transgressive ways against the powerful homogenising forces constructing national identity, not least an artificial …
‘Di certa similitudine dipinto’: The Imagination and Love in the Italian Renaissance
Italian Studies Research Seminar Series ‘Di certa similitudine dipinto’: The Imagination and Love in the Italian Renaissance Speaker: Anna Corrias, University of Queensland During the Renaissance, the imagination was considered a crucial mental power which played a key role in the general well-being of the individual as well as in his cultural, social, and religious …
Book launch – Italians in Australia: History, Memory and Identity
Book launch Italians in Australia: History, Memory and Identity by Francesco Ricatti Organised by the Department of Italian Studies and Co.As.It This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years. It focuses on crucial aspects of the migratory experience, including work and socio-economic mobility, …
Rethinking Translation: From Theory to Pedagogy
Rethinking Translation: From Theory to Pedagogy The Italian Studies Research Seminar Series and the Translatability of Cultures Reading Group are pleased to introduce Professor Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff University) Abstract Translation suffers from a bad reputation in the context of language learning. Rigidly defined as a process of transfer which transforms an original Source Text, written …
Italian Studies Research Seminar Series: Giordano Bruno to Sir Philip Sidney
Italian Studies Research Seminar Series Giordano Bruno to Sir Philip Sidney The Dedicatory Letter of Lo spaccio della bestia trionfante (The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast) Speaker: Hilary Gatti (Sapienza University of Rome) The long and complex dedicatory letter Giordano Bruno wrote to Sir Philip Sidney prefacing Lo Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante (1584) is well known …